(n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, /275.
(n.) In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.
(n.) A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
(v. t.) To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
(2) In addition, they were tested with dichotic listening for correct reports of consonant-vowel syllables.
(3) There is recent evidence that children naturally divide syllables into the opening consonant or consonant cluster (the onset) and the rest of the syllable (the rime).
(4) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
(5) Older hearing controls (14-16 years) matched the deaf group in span and tended to recall most accurately written syllables which are not easily lipread.
(6) Free recall of nonsense syllables was significantly better when these were learned under active compound.
(7) Under some conditions, visual information can override auditory information to the extent that identification judgments of a visually influenced syllable can be as consistent as for an analogous audiovisually compatible syllable.
(8) The major findings were as follows: (1) no significant difference was found in consonant identification scores between aperiodic, aperiodic + vocalic transition, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; (2) consonant identifications from vocalic transition + vowel segments in VC syllables were significantly greater than those from vocalic transition + vowel segments in CV syllables; (3) no significant difference was found in vowel identification scores between aperiodic + vocalic transition, vocalic transition + vowel, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; and (4) vowel identifications from aperiodic segments were significantly greater in CV syllables than in VC syllables.
(9) In the first, span and free-recall measures were obtained for 24 subjects, each tested with four types of spoken material (nonsense syllables, random words, fourth-order approximations to English, and normal prose).
(10) A reading battery composed of eight different subtests was given to each patient (reading of letters, reading of syllables, reading of pseudowords, reading of words, reading of sentences, understanding commands, reading and comprehension of texts, and logographic reading).
(11) "I'm Ms Dy-na-mi-TEE-ee," she sang on the chorus, putting an emphasis on the penultimate syllable.
(12) Using tonal stimuli based on the nonspeech stimuli of Mattingly et al., we found that subjects, with appropriate practice, could classify nonspeech chirp, short bleat, and bleat continua with boundaries equivalent to the syllable place continuum of Mattingly et al.
(13) After learning to categorize syllables consisting of [d], [b], or [g] followed by four different vowels, quail correctly categorized syllables in which the same consonants preceded eight novel vowels.
(14) Discourse passages and consonant nonsense syllables, presented in quiet and in noise, were used as the test conditions.
(15) The interactive effects of these modifications were evaluated by obtaining indices of nonsense syllable recognition ability from normally hearing listeners for systematically varied combinations of the four signal parameters.
(16) This study was designed to investigate the effects of self-evaluative responses with feedback in a nonsense syllable recognition task (Experiment I) and a concept learning task (Experiment II).
(17) All subjects received 60 monaural and dichotic consonant-vowel (CV) nonsense syllables presented at equal loudness levels using the most comfortable level (MCL) as the loudness criteria.
(18) Stutterers react emotionally to syllables they stutter because they experience difficulty in articulating those syllables.
(19) For the reverberant condition, the sentences were played through a room with a reverberation time of 1.2 s. The CVC syllables were removed from the sentences and presented in pairs to ten subjects with audiometrically normal hearing, who judged the similarity of the syllable pairs separately for the nonreverberant and reverberant conditions.
(20) Well-formed syllable production is established in the first 10 months of life by hearing infants but not by deaf infants, indicating that audition plays an important role in vocal development.
Ultima
Definition:
(a.) Most remote; furthest; final; last.
(n.) The last syllable of a word.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is for that, the penile implants have the most important place in the treatment of organic impotence, (not only as "ultima ratio").
(2) And, after the recent EU summit agreed on an "ultima ratio" rescue plan for eurozone countries facing the danger of default, chances are high that it will not materialise.
(3) Everest during the Ultima Thule Everest Expedition, and a third subject with TIAs during three separate high-altitude climbs.
(4) Non-operative percutaneous treatment of portal hypertension as ultima ratio therapy in liver cirrhosis has now been established in 16 cases.
(5) Poyet told the Uruguayan newspaper Ultimas Noticias: "The ban is incredible, shocking, it's disproportionate.
(6) Twenty-one climbers who were members of the American Ultima Thule Everest Expedition participated in a double-blind, randomized clinical trial of phenytoin prophylaxis for acute mountain sickness during the approach to the northeast ridge of Mount Everest.
(7) Poyet told the Uruguayan newspaper Ultimas Noticias: "The ban is incredible, shocking, disproportionate.
(8) The ultima ratio frequently resorted to was tracheotomy with all its medical and social drawbacks.
(9) In four patients this treatment was used as an ultima ratio when the patients were already scheduled for total gastrectomy.
(10) The authors report a case of acute mountain sickness (AMS) experienced by a support member of the Ultima Thule Everest Expedition.
(11) As prognosis of both acute and chronic liver failure is very poor, orthotopic liver transplantation represents the ultima ratio therapy.
(12) Surgical treatment of dissection of the aortic arch is indicated only on an ultima ratio basis.
(13) The complex formed between ribonuclease T1 (RNase T1) and guanosine-3',5'-bisphosphate (3',5'-pGp) crystallizes in the cubic space group I23 with alpha = 86.47 (4) A. X-ray data were collected on a four-circle diffractometer to 3.2 A resolution and the structure was determined by molecular-replacement methods [ULTIMA; Rabinovich & Shakked (1984).
(14) Over the last year, the National Coalition Against Censorship has defended the right to be read of works including House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima; John Green’s Looking for Alaska and Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, as well as Fun Home.
(15) In 2001, he spent a year working with Nienke Reehorst (former performer with Meg Stuart's Damaged Goods and Wim Vandekeybus's Ultima Vez ) and a group of actors with learning difficulties; in 2002, he worked with "Eurocrash" supremo Vandekeybus himself.
(16) Ultima ratio is the orthotopic heart transplantation, as it is only this intervention that will be able to improve the primarily bad prognosis decisively.
(17) As ultima ratio we administer a neuroleptic sleeping cure.
(18) The operative delivery is to consider as an ultima ratio.
(19) If hormonal therapy is not successful, a combined heart and lung transplantation should be attempted in ultima ratio.
(20) Five years ago, Raph Koster, the designer of seminal multiplayer fantasy games such as Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies wrote a fascinating book called A Theory of Fun for Game Design , in which he put forward the irresistibly catchy tenet that "with games, learning is the drug".