News tagged with vowel sound
Wagner's 'difficult' reputation unwarranted says research
Jul 01, 2009 |
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The composer Richard Wagner is well-known, even notorious, for writing operas that can challenge both performers and listeners. A new study published in the Journal of the Acoustic Society of America reveal ...
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Study: Vowel sounds affect consumer buying
Sep 13, 2007 |
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A U.S. study determined product names with vowel sounds that convey positive attributes about the product are deemed more favorable by consumers.
Disappearing vowels 'caught' on tape in US midwest
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Try to pronounce the words "caught" and "cot." If you're a New Yorker by birth, the two words will sound as different as their spellings. But if you grew up in California, you probably pronounce them identically.
Sensory feedback during speech: The brain attunes to more than just sound
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Oct 09, 2006 |
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Using robotics to manipulate the brain's perception of jaw movement while words are spoken, researchers have deepened our understanding of the importance of non-auditory sensory cues in the brain's control of speech. The ...
Essential tones of music rooted in human speech
May 24, 2007 |
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The use of 12 tone intervals in the music of many human cultures is rooted in the physics of how our vocal anatomy produces speech, according to researchers at the Duke University Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
Scientists develop better method for converting sounds to electronic signals
Feb 23, 2006 |
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Inspired by the way sound is processed in the brain, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have devised a new, highly efficient scheme for converting sounds to digital form. The payoff could be a ...
Music and speech based on human biology (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A pair of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech.
The Beatles Return to Mono
Nov 11, 2009 |
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From the White Album to Yellow Submarine modern releases of the Beatles present their music in stereo sound. But this Christmas, hard-core Beatles fans will eagerly unwrap "The Beatles in Mono," an 11-CD box set designed ...
Brain's magnetic fields reveal language delays in autism
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Faint magnetic signals from brain activity in children with autism show that those children process sound and language differently from non-autistic children. Identifying and classifying these brain response ...
Generating 'oohs' and 'aahs': Vocal Joystick uses voice to surf the Internet
Oct 09, 2007 |
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The Internet offers wide appeal to people with disabilities. But many of those same people find it frustrating or impossible to use a handheld mouse. Software developed at the University of Washington provides ...
Baby talk: The roots of the early vocabulary in infants' learning from speech
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Although babies typically start talking around 12 months of age, their brains actually begin processing certain aspects of language much earlier, so that by the time they start talking, babies actually already know hundreds ...
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