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I am in a french class and i have a question....does this work??\n\n\nNous allons au cinéma avec notre oncle\n\nI just don't know because i was tuaght that you can't have 2 vowels together. So does the "notre oncle" work?\n\nPlease help!! | The sentence is correct.\nThe 'two vowel' rule is a rule of thumb for the beginning of French. It's basically only the 'e' that disappears and then only on two letter words. (me, de, se,) Que is the only three letter word (that I know) that elides (loses the e) and you lose the 'a' in la, ma, ta, sa... In longer words (notre) or with other letters at the end (tu, stylo), you don't lose the vowel. | yes re in stall th3e spell checker and that should wrk | eng_Latn | 28,700 |
Why can't many Americans pronounce "Nuclear"? | First, the pronunciation "nucular" is considered non-standard by Americans. You hear about it because some prominent people have used it this way. (Bush-bashers like to act like he came up with it on his own. They also somehow have failed to notice that Jimmy Carter --who was a nuclear engineer in the Navy!!-- has always said it that way too! I'm also told Eisenhower said it this way.)\n\nSecond, it is 'stoopid' to assume something about someone' intelligence from their accent, regionalisms, use of 'nonstandard forms' or even outright personal mispronunciations. There are brilliant folk who 'sound like hicks' to others of us, and people of quite "refined speech" who are dim bulbs.\n\nFinally, this sort of inversion of sounds (the linguistic term is "metathesis") is a fairly natural occurrence in languages of all sorts. (I used to think this sort of thing was "wrong", until I studied Hebrew and learned about the regular metathesis of certain verb forms [in this case, reflected in the spelling].) There are lots of reasons for this, though perhaps the main one is that the inversion of sounds makes it much easier to pronounce.\n\nA fun example is seen in the way young children often do this, as in saying 'pisghetti' for 'spaghetti', or my own daugher's 'chicken' for 'kitchen', but adults do it too. Some result in dialectal or nonstandard forms (e.g., saying /ax/ for the word "ask", though this is actually a very old variant, reflected in Chaucer!). Some are widely accepted, sometimes even THE standard pronunciation (e.g., saying /comf-ter-ble/ for "comfortable". In fact, if not for this sort of inversion we'd still be saying 'brid' rather than the (corrupted?) form 'bird', and 'thrid' instead of 'third'! It also accounts for why we say "tornado" though the word is derived from Spanish "tronada".\n\nIn the case of 'nuclear', the ending -ular is much more common in English, and there is a tendency to adopt words to sounds and patterns elsewhere in the language. But even more basic than that -- 'nucular' allows you to use two "back vowels" /oo/ and /uh/ (i.e., vowel-sounds made in the back of the throat), which is easier than switching to the front vowel /ee/. | Joe wake up, there here, been here for awhile, there not leaving no time soon,where do you think your microwave technology came from, not from sears or walmart. | eng_Latn | 28,701 |
if your talking to some one and they pronounce it wrong over and over again do you correct them why or why not | I use the word in the conversation pronounced correctly. For example, if someone says "I need a respite (with a long i, emphasis on second syllable) from this job", I will say, "ya, I need a respite too (short i, emphasis on first syllable.) I try to be casual about it. Depends on the person tho and the circumstances. I wouldn't do that in front of others.\nI would want to know when I am pronouncing a word incorrectly, and appreciate being corrected. I mean what is the big deal? Why be defensive about something so trivial? | V sounds like the English v\nC before e and i sounds like double s, before a,o and u sounds like k. With the "funny little thing" called cedilla before a, o and u it sounds like double s.\nG follows the same rule as c: before e and i sounds like the z in azure or the s in pleasure, before a, o and u sounds like g in go.\nH is silent. after c it sounds like sh, after n sounds like the ng in sing, after l sounds a little like the li in azelia.\nj like f before e and i.\nr between vowels is rolled, inicial or doubled is guttural.\ns between vowels sounds like z | eng_Latn | 28,702 |
What is the importance of International Phonetic Alphabet? | Why is the International Phonetic Alphabet important? | Why am I unable to reach a good pronunciation, even though I have been immersed in the English language? Why can’t I get rid of phonetic mistakes? | eng_Latn | 28,703 |
Can a bound morpheme be more than one syllable? | Can a bound morpheme be more than one syllable in length? | What is the importance of International Phonetic Alphabet? | eng_Latn | 28,704 |
What was first word spoken by human? | What is the first word ever spoken? | How did the word "word" become a word? | eng_Latn | 28,705 |
How did English language originate? | How did the English language originate? | How did the word "accent" originate? | eng_Latn | 28,706 |
Why do some English words have silent letters when they have no use? For example: "k" as in know | Why are silent letters used in some words of English language? | What are the worst words in the English language? | eng_Latn | 28,707 |
Is there something about the German language that lends itself to the construction of very long words? | Why does German have very long words? | German (language): What is the proper pronunciation of the words "Ich" and "möchte"? | eng_Latn | 28,708 |
Models of tone for tonal and non-tonal languages | SRILM -- An extensible language modeling toolkit | syndrome de meckel gruber : a propos d ’ un cas rare . | eng_Latn | 28,709 |
What does Greek sound like? | What does Greek sound to non-Greek speakers? | Why are the Greek sirens cute but cacophonic? | eng_Latn | 28,710 |
How do native English speakers know how to pronounce the words they encounter for the first time in written form? | How do native English speakers pronounce a word they have never seen before? | What is the correct pronunciation of "pronunciation"? | eng_Latn | 28,711 |
Why do North Indians mispronounce so many English words? | Why aren't majority of north Indians learning English language? | Why Hindi is our national language? | eng_Latn | 28,712 |
Why is the letter 'y' sometimes considered a vowel? | How come the letter "y" is, at least in American English, considered only sometimes a vowel? Why does this have to be treated differently from any other letter? | What's the reason behind the difference between American and British English? | eng_Latn | 28,713 |
what is a grapheme definition and example | Examples and Observations. The basic unit of written language is the letter. The name grapheme is given to the letter or combination of letters that represents a phoneme. For example, the word 'ghost' contains five letters and four graphemes ('gh,' 'o,' 's,' and 't'), representing four phonemes. | A grapheme is a letter or a number of letters that represent a sound (phoneme) in a word. Another way to explain it is to say that a grapheme is a letter or letters that spell a sound in a word.Some written scripts are simple in which 1 letter usually represents 1 sound.These letters and their corresponding sounds are consistent and transparent.nother way to explain it is to say that a grapheme is a letter or letters that spell a sound in a word. Some written scripts are simple in which 1 letter usually represents 1 sound. These letters and their corresponding sounds are consistent and transparent. | eng_Latn | 28,714 |
how do you pronounce vietnamese name nguyen | It is important to understand that Vietnamese is a monosyllabic language. Every word in the Vietnamese language is a single syllable when it is correctly pronounced. As an example, let's look at the most common name--Nguyen. If we were to apply an English translation to this spelling, the result might be Nih-goo-yen. | The Vietnamese spelling as the little hat over the e. There's also the issue of tone as Vietnamese is one of the tone languages. Nguyen is spelled with the tilde ~, also over the e. The ~ indicates the so-called tripping tone, somewhat like the way uh-oh is pronounced in English. | eng_Latn | 28,715 |
meaning of accent | accent noun [ C ] (PRONUNCIATION) B1 the way in which people in a particular area, country, or social group pronounce words: He's got a strong southern/Boston accent. She's French but she speaks with an impeccable English accent. He speaks with a broad/heavy/strong/thick Yorkshire accent. | What is Accent. Accent deals with the phonology of the language. It is a way of pronouncing words that occurs among the people in a particular region or country. For example, someone from Alabama, in the south of US would have a Southern accent. This means that the way he or she pronounces the way is different from the way a Northerner would pronounce. | eng_Latn | 28,716 |
language analysis examples | Analysis of Language. Linguists divide the study of spoken language into two categories--phonology and grammar. Phonology is the study of sounds. Grammar is how the sounds are used to make sense. Phonology. The smallest unit of sound that can be altered to change the meaning of a word is called a phoneme. In English, for example, the words gin, kin, pin, sin, tin, and win all have different meaning due to the fact that the initial sound, or phoneme, is different. | Examples of Pejorative Terms in Language Studies. 1 Academese, Bureaucratese , Journalese, and Legalese. 2 Bombast. 3 Broken English. 4 Purism. 5 Purple Prose. | eng_Latn | 28,717 |
what does phonological means | n., pl. -gies. 1. the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation. 2. the phonological system or the body of phonological facts of a language. | Phonological disorder is a type of speech disorder known as an articulation disorder. Children with phonological disorder do not use some or all of the speech sounds expected for their age group. News & Features. Word for Word/Of Little Brain; Ritalin to the Rescue: A Children's Story for Our Time. | eng_Latn | 28,718 |
what are the plosive sounds | First Things First. Plosives get their name from the low-end kaboom created when the talent pronounces a B, P or T sound. These sounds require an extra burst of air from the lungs, which creates a micro windstorm at the microphone. This temporarily overloads the mic and distorts your recording. | Stop consonant. In phonetics, a stop, also known as a plosive or oral occlusive, is a consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases. The occlusion may be made with the tongue blade ([t], [d]) or body ([k], [É¡]), lips ([p], [b]), or glottis ([Ê]). | eng_Latn | 28,719 |
open and closed syllables | 1 Closed Syllables: A closed syllable has one and only one vowel, and it ends in a consonant. 2 Examples include in, ask, truck, sock, stretch, twelfth, and on. 3 Open Syllables: An open syllable has one and only one vowel, and that vowel occurs at the end of the syllable.4 Examples include no, she, I, a, and spry.here are six different kinds of syllables in English: 1 Closed Syllables: A closed syllable has one and only one vowel, and it ends in a consonant. 2 Examples include in, ask, truck, sock, stretch, twelfth, and on. | 1 Closed Syllables: A closed syllable has one and only one vowel, and it ends in a consonant. 2 Examples include in, ask, truck, sock, stretch, twelfth, and on. 3 Open Syllables: An open syllable has one and only one vowel, and that vowel occurs at the end of the syllable. | eng_Latn | 28,720 |
which syllable in ricochet is accented? | The first syllable of ricochet is accented: ric - o - chet,but the dictionary says that the first or third is acceptable.Regional dialects vary. Go Log In Sign Up | The definition of a ricochet is an act of bouncing off a surface. An example of a ricochet is a rubber ball flying back after hitting a wall. Ricochet is defined as to bounce off a surface and go another direction. An example of to ricochet is for a basketball to come flying back after hitting the backboard. | eng_Latn | 28,721 |
what does homophones examples | Pseudo-homophones are pseudowords that are phonetically identical to a word. For example, groan/grone and crane/crain are pseudo-homophone pairs, whereas plane/plain is a homophone pair since both letter strings are recognised words. Both types of pairs are used in lexical decision tasks to investigate word recognition. | 1 A homophone is a word that sounds exactly like another word, but has a different meaning and a different spelling. 2 If you stand on the stair and stare at the picture, you have a good example of a couple of homophones. . . . | eng_Latn | 28,722 |
how many syllables does stationary | There are 4 syllables in Stationary. Stationary (Stay-Shun-air-ee) 4 syllables | Stationary and Stationery. 1 The words stationary and stationery sound almost identical, but they are very different in meaning. 2 The word stationary means not moving or still. 3 The word stationery (with an e) means writing and office supplies (e.g., writing paper, envelopes, pens). | eng_Latn | 28,723 |
o what is that sound when written | O What is that Sound â An Analysis. WH Audenâs âO What is that Soundâ is written in the form of a ballad, published in 1936.It explores the themes of war and the tragedy that stems from it in a concise and graceful way.elow is a free excerpt of O What Is That Sound â an Analysis from Anti Essays, your source for free research papers, essays, and term paper examples. | Pronounce n sound. The 'n sound' /n/ is a nasal sound. To create it, air is blocked from leaving the mouth by pressing the tip against the tooth ridge and the sides of the front of the tongue against the side teeth. The sound is voiced, so the vocal cords vibrate while pronouncing it in American English. | eng_Latn | 28,724 |
who is raining? | 'S raining /sre'nIng/ is one way of many that we can pronounce It's raining. The beginning of a sentence, especially if it's predictable and meaning-free, is a frequent place for sound loss in pronunciation. Others of this type include: By the way, you're probably not right to identify 's raining with Is raining. That's an /s/, not a /z/; that is, you wouldn't say /zre'nIng/. But is has a /z/, not an /s/, and it shows up in fast speech rules when it really means is. For instance, if you meant to say He's reading and you were in a hurry, you'd say /zri'dIng/, not /sri'dIng/. So the contraction is just that -- a shortening of a predictable sentence part. | Raining Men is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna from her fifth studio album, Loud (2010). | eng_Latn | 28,725 |
what is the word for words that invoke sounds | What do you call words that sound like the thing they describe? The formation of a word from a sound associated with the thing it describes is known as onomatopoeia; the related adjective is onomatopoeic. Examples of this type of word include atishoo, cuckoo, croak, hiccup, miaow, ping-pong, splash, and sizzle. | Sounds Like - Spell, Write! lets you use your ear to find and type the word you are after. It starts off by displaying a phonetic keyboard. Each key represents a phoneme. You can hear the phoneme by pointing at it with your mouse. When you click on a phoneme, Sounds Like displays words that begin with that sound. | eng_Latn | 28,726 |
what part of speech is stress | Usually, prefixes do not take the stress of a word. There are a few exceptions to this rule, however, like: un, in, pre, ex and mis, which are all stressed in their prefix. Examples: You put stress on the second syllable from the end of the word, with words ending in ic, sion and tion. Examples: You put stress on the third from end syllable with words that end in cy, ty, phy, gy and al. Examples: A compound noun is a noun made out of two nouns in order to form one word. In a compound noun, the first word usually takes on the stress. | Examples of stress in a Sentence. 1 The union stressed the need for stricter safety standards. 2 The risks involved in the procedure should be stressed. 3 Some people stress the second syllable of âharassment,â while others stress the first. 4 When she said, âWe need lots of money,â she stressed the word âlots.â. | eng_Latn | 28,727 |
syllables and consonants | A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).his syllable can be abstracted as a consonant-vowel-consonant syllable, abbreviated CVC. Languages vary greatly in the restrictions on the sounds making up the onset, nucleus and coda of a syllable, according to what is termed a language's phonotactics. | (plural syllables) (linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables. | eng_Latn | 28,728 |
what kind of word is racecar spelled backwards | Racecar, spelled backwards, is also racecar. It is one of a small number of words that are the same forward and backward. These are called palindromes, a term which also incluâ¦des phrases such as Madam I'm Adam.. Some palindromes: civic kayak radar redder refer reviver. 3 people found this useful. | Gee, this is fun.... BTW : Palindromes are the same forwards and backwards, like RACECAR, not reversed letters that also spell out a word. Anagrams are words that contain letters you can use to spell other words, like POST and STOP. Anagrams do not have to use all the letters, or be in order. | eng_Latn | 28,729 |
what is a consonant combination | The Combination glh. The consonant combination glh is one of the first ones that someone new to Talossan encounters, since it begins the word glheþ (= language). The exoticness of this letter combination (and the þ that ends the word) often makes an English speaker hesitate before beginning to learn Talossan. | Consonants, on the other hand, are letters that are pronounced with trapped sounds. The word âconsonantâ came from a borrowed Latin word âsymphononâ which means âpronounced with.â Consonant letters are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z. The sounds made when a person pronounces these letters come from the different blockage in the airflow of a personâs mouth. | eng_Latn | 28,730 |
how to break down a word into syllables | Working With Syllables. It is important to be able to break words into syllables when learning to read or working with hard words. A syllable is the smallest part of the word. Even long words become easy to read when they are broken down into their smallest parts-usually 1 - 4 letters each.lue 4. Syllables break between double consonants. For example: dinner = din ner. Clue 5. If there are two consonants in the middle of a word, the break usually comes between them unless the two consonants are a consonant blend [only make one sound]. | Directions: Choose the number of syllables in each word. Write five examples each for 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 syllable words. 1 Some words have just one syllable such as cat, dog. 2 house etc. 3 Some words have two syllables such as in-sist, be-fore etc. 4 Some words have three syllables such as re-mem-ber etc. | eng_Latn | 28,731 |
what is the name for words that are pronounced the same forward and backward | Palindromes redirects here. For the film, see Palindromes (film). A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward, such as madam or kayak. | 59 Words that Spell the Same Backwards and Forwards â Palindromes. Tweet. A word that spells the same backward as well as forward such as âdidâ is called a Palindrome. Chances are you or your friends might be able to come up with less than 5 Palindromes off the top of your head. | eng_Latn | 28,732 |
define: pronounced | The definition of pronounced is something spoken or distinct. An example of pronounced is the way someone says your name. An example of pronounced is make-up that is very obvious. spoken or uttered. | (oÍomâ²loutâ²) n. 1. a. A change in a vowel sound caused by partial assimilation especially to a vowel or semivowel occurring in the following syllable. b. A vowel sound changed in this manner. | eng_Latn | 28,733 |
what is consonant cluster reduction | Cluster reduction is a syllable structure process. It occurs when a child reduces a consonant cluster to a single consonant. A consonant cluster is when there are 2-3 consonants next to one another in a word (âspâ in space). With the word âspaceâ, a child using cluster reduction might say this as âpaceâ. Cluster reduction can occur in any word position. Medial position: lipstick becomes âliptickâ. | Cluster reduction is one of many common phonological âerrorsâ or processes that a child might run into while he or she is learning proper speech. Every language has rules about how sounds can be combined. | eng_Latn | 28,734 |
what is a grapheme? | In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest unit of a writing system of any given language. An individual grapheme may or may not carry meaning by itself, and may or may not correspond to a single phoneme of the spoken language. | Answer: 9 different ways. There are 9 different ways you can write that one sound in French. No wonder many of us find the French language difficult to spell. Each spelling option is called a grapheme, a distinct way of writing a particular sound within a language. | eng_Latn | 28,735 |
schwa sound definition | noun. Schwa is a vowel sound in an unstressed syllable, or the phonetic symbol É which is the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for schwa. An unstressed syllable in a word, such as the a syllable in ago, is an example of schwa.oun. 1 A mid-central neutral vowel, typically occurring in unstressed syllables, as the final vowel of English sofa. 2 The symbol (&schwa;) used to represent an unstressed neutral vowel and, in some systems of phonetic transcription, a stressed mid-central vowel, as in but. | A schwa at the end of a word from Spanish is very common and is usually spelled with a as in mesa, bonanza, and several other words on the list. | eng_Latn | 28,736 |
most mispronounced words | 'Phenomenon' is the most mispronounced word. With nine letter and four syllables, the tongue-twisting 'phenomenon' has been named as the most mispronounced word in the English language. The word came first in a study of terms that are tricky to get your tongue around, with most people mixing up the letters M and N on a regular basis. | Misheard Lyrics From⦠Jack Johnson, Karmin, Phoenix, and 30 Seconds To Mars share some of their most commonly⦠Originals 11 Delicious Misheard Lyrics About Food Misheard lyrics about food that you'll never hear the same again! Originals. | eng_Latn | 28,737 |
how many phonemes in english | Phonemes, letters and allophones. A phoneme is a single unit of sound that has meaning in any language. There are 44 phonemes in English (in the standard British model), each one representing a different sound a person can make. Since there are only 26 letters in the alphabet, sometimes letter combinations need to be used to make a phoneme. | There are about 40 phonemes, or sound units, in English, thanks to the many ways that the 26 letters of the alphabet can be used and arranged. For instance, the phoneme or sound /f/ can be spelled using the letters f, ff, or ph. | eng_Latn | 28,738 |
what is accent | Full Definition of ACCENT. transitive verb. 1. a: to pronounce with accent: stress b: to mark with a written or printed accent. 2. : to give prominence to: make more prominent. See accent defined for English-language learners.ADVERTISEMENT. Regional accents are common in the U.S. 2 She spoke with an American accent. 3 The tourist had a foreign accent. 4 He has a heavy southern accent. 5 The word â before â has the accent on the last syllable. 6 Put the accent on the first syllable of the word. | 1 Accent (phonetics), prominence given to a particular syllable in a word, or a word in a phrase. Stress (linguistics), prominence signaled by loudness, length, or qualitative differences. | eng_Latn | 28,739 |
what is homophones mean | A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning, and may differ in spelling.The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of rise), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two, and too.he term homophone may also apply to units longer or shorter than words, such as phrases, letters or groups of letters that are pronounced the same as another phrase, letter or group of letters. A word or unit with this property is said to be homophonous. | A homophone is a word that has the same sound as another word but is spelled differently and has a different meaning: to/two/too. there/their/they're. pray/prey. Not so bad, right? The ending âgraph means drawn or written, so a homograph has the same spelling. The âphone ending means sound or voice, so a homophone has the same pronunciation. | eng_Latn | 28,740 |
what is phonology in language | Phonology is the study of the sound system of languages. It is a huge area of language theory and it is difficult to do more on a general language course than have an outline knowledge of what it includes.honology is the study of the sound system of languages. It is a huge area of language theory and it is difficult to do more on a general language course than have an outline knowledge of what it includes. | Phonology is the study of sounds. Grammar is how the sounds are used to make sense. Phonology. The smallest unit of sound that can be altered to change the meaning of a word is called a phoneme.In English, for example, the words gin, kin, pin, sin, tin, and win all have different meaning due to the fact that the initial sound, or phoneme, is different. Phonemes do not have meaning by themselves.honology is the study of sounds. Grammar is how the sounds are used to make sense. Phonology. The smallest unit of sound that can be altered to change the meaning of a word is called a phoneme. | eng_Latn | 28,741 |
what type of music is tobu | Exclusive Interview: Tobu. Tobu is a music producer who has been making a lot of waves across YouTube in 2013. The 21 year old Latvian has made a great impression on the electronic music world with his great collection of original tracks. | toki pona. Toki Pona is a simple constructed language consisting of 120 words and 18 basic sounds. It was created by Canadian linguist Sonja Elen Kisa in 2001. It is a minimal language. Like a pidgin, it focuses on simple concepts and elements that are relatively universal among cultures. Toki Pona aims to express maximal meaning with minimal complexity. There are five vowels and nine consonants (j, k, l, m, n, p, s, t, w). | eng_Latn | 28,742 |
what is the pronunciation aid that determines the stress placed upon a syllable called? | What is the pronunciation aid that determines the stress placed upon a syllable called? macron accent mark breve none of the above. Answer: none of the above. The pronunciation aid that determines the stress placed upon a syllable is called a STRESS MARK. | stress noun (PRONUNCIATION) The meaning of a sentence often depends on stress and intonation. When insert is a verb, the stress is on the second syllable, but when it is a noun, the stress is on the first syllable. In this dictionary, stress in compounds is indicated by stress markers. | eng_Latn | 28,743 |
how many states begin with a vowel | 12 states start with a vowel: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Utah. A vowel is any letter that is not a consonant!! A,E,I,O,U are all the vowels sometimes Y is considered a vowel. | 1 Closed Syllables: A closed syllable has one and only one vowel, and it ends in a consonant. 2 Examples include in, ask, truck, sock, stretch, twelfth, and on. 3 Open Syllables: An open syllable has one and only one vowel, and that vowel occurs at the end of the syllable. 4 Examples include no, she, I, a, and spry. | eng_Latn | 28,744 |
define dialect levelling | Dialect levelling or dialect leveling refers to the assimilation, mixture and/or eradication of certain dialects, often due to language standardization.his process begins âwhen the speakers of the creole community stop targeting the lexifier language and start targeting the relexified lexicons, that is, the early creoleâ. Dialect levelling in such a situation may not be complete, however. | It has been suggested that dialect levelling plays a role in the formation of creoles. Dialect levelling is responsible for standardizing the multiple language variants produced by the relexification of substrate languages with words from the lexifier language.his process begins âwhen the speakers of the creole community stop targeting the lexifier language and start targeting the relexified lexicons, that is, the early creoleâ. Dialect levelling in such a situation may not be complete, however. | eng_Latn | 28,745 |
what is vowel digraph | How to Spell Vowel Digraphs. Vowel digraphs are letter combinations in which the two vowels together make a single sound. (Some, like âauâ or âoi,â are also diphthongs, in which the combination contains the basic sounds of both vowels, but they glide together to make one sound.) Here are some suggestions for sounding them out in unfamiliar words. | (The digraphs AW, EW, OW, OU, and OO as in wood are covered in vowel digraphs unit 2). I usually teach vowel digraphs after teaching long vowel bossy E patterns, but it is not essential to follow this order. | eng_Latn | 28,746 |
what does syllabic language mean | Syllabic consonant. A syllabic consonant or vocalic consonant is a consonant that forms a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in the English words rhythm, button and bottle, or is the nucleus of a syllable, like the r sound in the American pronunciation of work. | This is in contrast to other types of writing systems, such as syllabaries (in which each character represents a syllable) and logographies (in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic unit). The Proto-Canaanite script, later known as the Phoenician alphabet, is the first fully phonemic script. | eng_Latn | 28,747 |
what is grapheme phoneme correspondence | Graphemes can be made up from 1 letter e.g. p, 2 letters e.g. sh, 3 letters e.g. tch or 4 letters e.g ough. GPC-This is short for Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence. Knowing a GPC means being able to match a phoneme to a grapheme and vice versa.Digraph-A grapheme containing two letters that makes just one sound (phoneme).Trigraph-A grapheme containing three letters that makes just one sound (phoneme). Oral Blending-This involves hearing phonemes and being able to merge them together to make a word.PC-This is short for Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence. Knowing a GPC means being able to match a phoneme to a grapheme and vice versa. | graph-o-phonic cue-ing sys-tem. The graphophonic cueing system is one of the main four language cueing systems. This technique is also known as the phonic cueing system or the phonological cueing system. The graphophonic cueing system is based upon analyzing letters and phonemes.A phoneme is an irreducible phonetic unit corresponding to a particular sound. The prefix grapho-means writing. The word phonic means of or relating to sound.Graphophonic analysis studies the letter-sound relationships within a word.any readers know that the letter p is silent when beginning a word and followed by the letter s. Furthermore, the average reader knows that the letter a is soft when not followed by a vowel. The suffix-ist is pronounced as it appears. Thus, the word psalmist is pronounced as saelm-sälm. ist | eng_Latn | 28,748 |
prima facie how to pronounce | pry-muh fa'-cey is the way most of the lawyers I work around pronounce it. Here in the South you get some interesting pronunciations of Latin terms by lawyers, politicians, and other disreputable sorts. The annual session of the Florida Legislature is closed with the call of Sine die. | Prima Facie. [ Latin, On the first appearance. ] A fact presumed to be true unless it is disproved. In common parlance the term prima facie is used to describe the apparent nature of something upon initial observation. | eng_Latn | 28,749 |
what is a vowel | A vowel is a speech sound made by the vocal cords. It is also a type of letter in the alphabet. The letters of the English alphabet are either vowels or consonants or both. A vowel sound comes from the lungs, through the vocal cords, and is not blocked, so there is no friction. All English words have vowels. | The letter Y can be regarded as both a vowel and a consonant. In terms of sound, a vowel is 'a speech sound which is produced by comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction...', while a consonant is 'a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed'. | eng_Latn | 28,750 |
define phonograph | The definition of a phonograph is a record player. A player introduced in 1877 to reproduce sounds on which you can play records and listen to the sound through an attached speaker is an example of a phonograph. YourDictionary definition and usage example. | A phonogram is a letter (or series of letters) that stands for a sound, syllable, syllable part (rime), or series of sounds. Phonograms are often referred to as word families. The words sunk, chunk, and trunk belong to the same word family because they contain the ending-unk.In these three words the ending-unk is a phonogram; it is also the rime. A relatively small number of phonograms can be used to generate a large number of words.Wylie and Durrell (1970) point out that nearly 500 primary-grade words can be derived from 37 ârhymingâ phonograms.honograms are often referred to as word families. The words sunk, chunk, and trunk belong to the same word family because they contain the ending-unk. In these three words the ending-unk is a phonogram; it is also the rime. | eng_Latn | 28,751 |
how many common letter sounds | The Letter Sounds. The English language has 26 letters in its alphabet and most experts believe there are 44 letter sounds [The experts debate on anywhere between 39 to 45, but most accept 44]. If there were 44 letters in our alphabet, then reading would really be simple! Each letter would have its own sound. | 6. Words that have the Long A + L sound: This sound is made by these letter combinations: -ALE, -AIL, -EIL. The first two are by far the most common, and the only way to learn which words belong in which group is to STUDY, MEMORIZE, READ and WRITE the words as much as you can. | eng_Latn | 28,752 |
The next challenge for the Welsh language is making sure young people speak it outside the classroom, First Minister Carwyn Jones has predicted. | He spoke ahead of 2011 Census results being published later on Tuesday, including the number of Welsh speakers.
Mr Jones said his own children speak English to each other, despite going to a Welsh-language school.
"Cracking that is going to be crucial to the future of the language over the next 10 years," he said.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) will reveal findings from the 2011 Census on a variety of topics, including a question on national identity for the first time, as well as ethnicity, religion, migration and health.
The 2001 Census showed there were 582,000 (20.8%) Welsh speakers, up 2.1% on 1991.
The first minister said he expected the latest Census findings to show a smaller proportion of Welsh speakers in the language's traditional stronghold communities, but more people speaking Welsh in other parts of Wales, including Cardiff.
Legislation to guarantee bilingual services and the establishment of a language commissioner had helped secure the official status of Welsh, he said.
However, it was important that it also remained in use as an everyday language.
Mr Jones said there were places where children talk to each other in English, even though they are taught in Welsh and speak Welsh to their parents.
Although they go to a Welsh-language school, his daughter Seren and son Ruairi speak English to each other. Although he is a Welsh speaker and his wife Lisa has learned the language, Mr Jones said their children learned English first because that was the language at home.
"That's not a bad thing. It's happened before in families - but what's important to me is that they use Welsh outside school. Neither of them does," he said.
The Welsh government's Welsh language strategy, published in March, raises concerns about the sustainability of Welsh in its heartlands.
It points to Census data that show the number of communities where more than 70% of people speak Welsh fell from 92 to 54 between 1991 and 2001.
In 2003 the Welsh government set targets to halt the decline, and to increase the proportion of Welsh speakers 5% by 2011.
Mr Jones said: "My view, looking at the situation with the Welsh language is that a great deal has been done in terms of status, in terms of official use, but that isn't enough.
"The next challenge for us has to be to make sure that young people in particular have an opportunity to use the language outside the classroom, both when they are in school and after they have left school as well."
He added: "This is the challenge that we face now. The number of Welsh speakers among young people is increasing as more and more of them go to Welsh-medium schools, but they tend not to use the language outside of school.
"When you speak to young people as to why this is, they can't give an answer themselves. There are just occasions when English is the appropriate language and there seem to be more and more occasions when that's correct." | Mewn dogfen gan y cwmni sydd wedi ei weld gan BBC Cymru, maen nhw'n rhagweld na fyddan nhw'n gallu denu rhagor o waith i'r safle.
Byddai colli cymaint â hynny o swyddi yn gadael gweithlu o tua 600 ym Mhen-y-bont.
Mewn datganiad ddydd Mercher, wnaeth Ford ddim gwadu ei fod yn rhagweld colli'r swyddi, ond ychwanegodd ei fod yn parhau i drafod â'r undebau i ddod o hyd i ddatrysiad.
Yn ôl Prif Weinidog Cymru, Carwyn Jones mae'r adroddiadau o'r diswyddiadau yn ddarlun o'r "sefyllfa waethaf posib" allai ddigwydd.
Ychwanegodd Prif Weinidog y DU, Theresa May y byddai ei llywodraeth yn parhau i gael "deialog cyson" gyda'r cwmni yn sgil y bygythiad i swyddi ym Mhen-y-bont.
Dywedodd Ford eu bod yn disgwyl y bydd digon o waith ar gyfer y gweithlu presennol am y "ddwy i dair blynedd nesaf", ond eu bod ar hyn o bryd yn disgwyl gweld lleihad yn y llwyth gwaith wedi hynny.
"Mae Ford felly wedi cynnig sefydlu grŵp gwaith ar y cyd gyda'i phartneriaid undeb, Unite a GMB, er mwyn dod o hyd i gyfleoedd busnes yn y dyfodol," meddai'r cwmni.
"Mae'n glir, er mwyn denu busnes newydd, y bydd angen i'r gwaith ym Mhen-y-bont sicrhau ei fod yn gystadleuol, ac fe fyddai delio â rhai o'r pryderon yn ymwneud ag effeithlonrwydd y ffatri fod yn uchel ar yr agenda."
Bydd cyfarfodydd brys yn cael eu cynnal yn y ffatri ddydd Mercher o ganlyniad i'r datblygiad.
Daeth cyhoeddiad ym mis Medi bod y buddsoddiad mewn cynllun i ddatblygu injan newydd wedi gostwng.
Ar hyn o bryd mae Ford yn creu 655,000 o beiriannau ym Mhen-y-bont ond mae'r cytundebau ar gyfer y rheiny yn dod i ben, a dim ond gwaith ar gyfer 125,000 o'r rheiny sydd wedi'i warantu yn y dyfodol.
Mae'r ddogfen yn dweud bod y ffatri'n tanberfformio o'i gymharu â safleoedd tebyg, gan gynnwys ffatri'r cwmni yn Dagenham.
Mae lefelau gweithio dros oriau dros ddwbl beth ydyn nhw yn Dagenham, ac mae hynny'n ychwanegu 6% at y gost o gynhyrchu'r peiriannau.
Yn ôl y cwmni, mae hyn yn deillio o absenoldebau, diffyg perfformiad, ac arferion gwaith sy'n cynnwys talu lwfans nad oedd staff yn gymwys i'w dderbyn, yn ogystal â chyfnewid swyddi rheolaidd.
Ychwanegodd y ddogfen y byddai'n rhaid gwella perfformiad os am ddenu rhagor o waith i Ben-y-bont.
'Gwaith i'w wneud'
Yn ôl Carwyn Jones mae'r amcangyfrif o ddiswyddiadau yn darlunio'r "sefyllfa waethaf posib" allai ddigwydd.
Dywedodd ei fod mewn cysylltiad parhaol gyda Ford Europe ac y byddai Llywodraeth Cymru'n gweithio gyda'r cwmni i ddod â buddsoddiad newydd yn y dyfodol.
"Mae gwaith i'w wneud, ond dwi'n hyderus y gallwn ni gryfhau sefyllfa Ford Pen-y-bont," meddai wrth BBC Cymru.
Ychwanegodd fod rheolwyr Pen-y-bont wedi caniatáu i "arferion gwaith llesteiriol" ddatblygu, ac nad oedd y berthynas rhwng undebau a rheolwyr "cystal ag y gallai fod".
Wrth ymateb i alwadau arno i siarad â rheolwyr Ford yn yr Unol Daleithiau, dywedodd: "Fyddai dim pwynt gwneud hynny - mae pob penderfyniad yn cael ei wneud gan Ford yn Ewrop."
Fis diwethaf fe alwodd Unite ar benaethiaid Ford i greu cynllun pum mlynedd ar gyfer eu safle ym Mhen-y-bont.
Dywedodd yr undeb bod y cyfarfodydd ddydd Mercher yn golygu bod gweithwyr "gam yn nes at streicio i amddiffyn eu swyddi".
Dywedodd Len McCluskey o'r undeb: "Mae aelodau Unite wedi ymrwymo i Ford, mae'r Cynulliad wedi ymrwymo i Ford, yr unig beth sydd angen nawr yw i Ford ymrwymo i'w weithlu.
"Mae hynny'n golygu buddsoddiad newydd, cynnyrch newydd a chynllun clir ar gyfer dyfodol y ffatri."
Dywedodd Aelod Seneddol Pen-y-bont, Madeleine Moon wrth BBC Cymru ei bod wedi siarad â chynrychiolwyr Ford ddydd Mawrth ac nad oedd unrhyw sôn am golli swyddi.
"Rydw i mewn sioc," meddai wrth BBC Radio Wales.
"Cyn belled ag yr oeddwn i yn ei ddeall, roedd Ford yn ceisio dod o hyd i fwy o waith ym Mhen-y-bont - ni chafodd unrhyw beth ei ddweud am golli swyddi."
Yn dilyn hynny, cafodd Ms Moon ei beirniadu gan ysgrifennydd undeb Unite yng Nghymru, Andy Richards, am gynnig cysur Jôb wrth ymateb i'r pryderon.
"Fe aeth Madeline Moon, pan godon ni'r pryderon, ar y teledu a dweud ein bod ni'n gorymateb a'i bod wedi cael sicrwydd," meddai cyn-gadeirydd Llafur Cymru.
"Mae'n edrych i ni fel bod Madeline druan wedi cael ei thwyllo gan y cwmni."
Ond mynnodd Ms Moon nad oedd hynny'n wir, ac mai'r "unig sicrwydd rydw i wedi'i dderbyn yw bod Ford yn parhau i chwilio am gytundebau newydd ar gyfer Pen-y-bont".
Mae llefarydd Plaid Cymru ar yr economi, Adam Price wedi galw ar Mr Jones i siarad yn uniongyrchol â phennaeth Ford i geisio cael sicrwydd ynglŷn â dyfodol y safle ym Mhen-y-bont.
"Gan fod y Prif Weinidog mas yn yr Unol Daleithiau ar hyn o bryd ar gyfer dathliadau Dydd Gŵyl Dewi yn Washington DC, byddwn yn ymbil arno nawr i deithio draw i Detroit i bencadlys Ford er mwyn cael cyfarfod wyneb yn wyneb gyda'u prif weithredwr, Mark Fields," meddai ar raglen Post Cyntaf BBC Radio Cymru fore Mercher.
"Mae hyn yn amlwg yn creu pryder a chonsyrn i'r gweithwyr yno wrth gwrs, ond hefyd ar draws yr economi Cymreig - nid yn unig i'r ffatri ond hefyd i'r cyflenwyr sy'n ddibynnol yng Nghymru ar gynhyrchiant yn Ford."
Ar hyn o bryd, mae'r safle yn adeiladu injans ar gyfer Jaguar Land Rover Sigma Ford, ond ni fydd yn adeiladu yr un o'r rhain ar ôl 2018.
Ym mis Medi fe benderfynodd Ford leihau ei fuddsoddiad i'r ffatri i greu injan newydd Dragon - o £181m i £100m - gan haneru nifer yr injans fydd yn cael eu hadeiladu i 125,000.
Fe addawodd Llywodraeth Cymru £15m yn ddibynnol ar yr addewid y byddai 500 o swyddi'n cael eu diogelu. | eng_Latn | 28,753 |
what is sibilance | Sibilance is a manner of articulation of fricative and affricate consonants, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the sharp edge of the teeth, which are held close together; a consonant that uses sibilance may be called a sibilant, or a strident. | exists and is an alternate of . Sibilant means making a hissing noise, particularly related to speech (e.g. making the noises of 's', 'sh', 'z'). Therefore sibilance means the quality or state of being sibilant. Sibilant means making a hissing noise, particularly related to speech (e.g. making the noises of 's', 'sh', 'z'). | eng_Latn | 28,754 |
Why is touching my feet and someone else's feet "different"? | Why is touching my feet and someone else's different? | How do you compare the way English is spoken, with another language you are fluent in? | eng_Latn | 28,755 |
why do echoes occur | Echo is caused by reflection of the sound from a broad and hard obstacle. The echo can be heard if the following condition is met. To hear a distinct echo, the time interval between original sound and the reflection must be at least 0.1s. | An echoic is a verbal operant which occurs in response to the verbal behavior of another person (or to a textual prompt such as a written model). It is the point-to-point (i.e. word for word) imitation of the model.The ability to imitate is necessary for the acquisition of many skills including language.n echoic is a verbal operant which occurs in response to the verbal behavior of another person (or to a textual prompt such as a written model). It is the point-to-point (i.e. word for word) imitation of the model. | eng_Latn | 28,756 |
What two methods can be used when using Load Testing? | Load testing is primarily concerned with testing that the system can continue to operate under a specific load, whether that be large quantities of data or a large number of users. This is generally referred to as software scalability. The related load testing activity of when performed as a non-functional activity is often referred to as endurance testing. Volume testing is a way to test software functions even when certain components (for example a file or database) increase radically in size. Stress testing is a way to test reliability under unexpected or rare workloads. Stability testing (often referred to as load or endurance testing) checks to see if the software can continuously function well in or above an acceptable period. | Different linguists therefore take different approaches to the problem of assigning sounds to phonemes. For example, they differ in the extent to which they require allophones to be phonetically similar. There are also differing ideas as to whether this grouping of sounds is purely a tool for linguistic analysis, or reflects an actual process in the way the human brain processes a language. | eng_Latn | 28,757 |
0-knowledge fuzzing | An Empirical Study of the Reliability of UNIX Utilities | iVector-based prosodic system for language identification | eng_Latn | 28,758 |
Mapping study about usability requirements elicitation | Nonfunctional requirements: from elicitation to conceptual models | 1 From The Sound Pattern of English : Phonetic and Phonological Representation ( 1968 ) | eng_Latn | 28,759 |
Referencing \mathcal Variables Orally | How to pronounce $\mathcal{E}$? | Unable to solve equation for a variable by any method | eng_Latn | 28,760 |
words in puddles of sound : modelling psycholinguistic effects in speech segmentation . | Distributional Regularity and Phonotactic Constraints are Useful for Segmentation | Don't sweat the small stuff: formal verification of C code without the pain | eng_Latn | 28,761 |
Would you consider a person truly fluent if he still carried the accent of his mother tongue? | This is an interesting question.\n\nLinguists, especially those who study second language acquisition (SLA), are aware that most people who learn a new language after about the age of 15 always speak with an "accent". It is quite rare, in fact, to meet a person who doesn't.\n\nWhether or not this means that the person is not a fabulous user of the language is somewhat beside the point. I am acquainted with a German woman who now teaches in English at an American university, for example. As far as the grammar, pragmatics, and many other characteristics of her English, she uses English very very well. In some cases, her ability to use English in an academic setting is superior to that of many native speakers. However, she speaks English with an accent. Does that mean that she is not able to use English to communicate?\n\nAnother complicating factor is that our perception and even comprehension of language is confounded by our perception of the person who uses that language. A classic study that demonstrates this was performed by a researcher named Rubin. In that study, students listened to a lecture. They were shown different pictures and told that the person in the picture gave the lecture. Students who were shown a picture of an Asian male did not perform as well on a comprehension test as students who were shown a picture of a Caucasian male, even though they listened to the same tape recording. This type of effect, where our comprehension is affected by our perception of the person as well as that person's language, can affect interactions with non-native speakers as well.\n\nBecause so few non-native speakers are able to speak with an accent that sounds native-like, language teachers in general don't make it a goal to train their students to sound like native speakers. However, there are some features of accents that can be changed to make them more understandable. Native speakers often listen to the length of the vowel, for example, to tell the difference between the words "beat" and "bead". So non-native speakers can be trained to make the vowel in "bead" longer than the one in "beat", which will help native speakers to understand them better. However, one thing that frustrates me as an ESL teacher is the inequality of this; I teach the non-native speakers how to make their accents more understandable, but I never teach the native speakers how to understand accents better. I find that to be quite unfair. Who says the native speaker is the one that should be catered to?\n\nIn answer to your question, I know some people that I consider very "fluent" in English despite the fact that they speak with accents. However, native speakers of English certainly do seem to react when they sense that someone doesn't speak English exactly like they expect. How much of this is language-related and how much of this is (gulp) prejudice is up for grabs.\n\nEven having written that, I am aware of the irony that I complain about the inequality and unfairness that's built into teaching ESL pronunciation, but I still continue to teach it. In addition, my ability to speak with a very native-like accent is something that I take some pride in as a non-native speaker of Spanish, for example. So although I am aware of these issues, I am still contributing to them.\n\nAlso, as a linguistic researcher, I am increasingly interested in the problem of perception. There is a lot of evidence coming out in research studies today that the reason people speak English with an accent may not be that their English sound system is influenced by their native language, but that their perception of English as they hear it is. In other words, because they hear things through the sound system of their native language, English might sound more like their native language to them than it does to English speakers. Therefore, when they hear and store new vocabulary words | I can tell you what you do in the Microsoft world. \n\nWhen you build a program using MFC/DevStudio, you can create a separate resource only DLL that has the strings for all your messages in it. You build one with the messages in English and one in Hindi. Your installer code will have to allow the user to select the language and then coyp the correct version of the DLL into the install directory.\n\n\nIn your main program code, instead of coding a literal, (something of the form "This is a string.") you instatiante a CString and load it from the resource table.\n\nThe code looks something like this:\n\nCString strMessage;\n\nstrMessage.LoadString(resourceID);\n\nAfxMessageBox(strMessage);\n\nThe other thing that you have to remember to do is to build all of your code using the _UNICODE compiler flag. That way the compiler will use two byte wide characters for all of your CStrings.\n\nYou can check on Microsoft's web site for more information on this. Search under the topic "Internationalization". | eng_Latn | 28,762 |
Myanmar Spell Checker | Myanmar Word Segmentation using Syllable level Longest Matching | Peer Relationships and Social and Recreational Activities Among Adolescents and Adults with Autism | eng_Latn | 28,763 |
why fourier tranform and laplace transform are used in signal analysis? | to move back and forth from the frequency to the time domain | Software developers working on natural language programs need linguists. \n\nSpeech recognition software companies need linguists too. \n\nRecently some political gurus have employed linguists to find out which words have a great impact on the audience. | eng_Latn | 28,764 |
What do you call a speech disorder characterized by unconscious reversal of syllables of a spoken word? | i looked and saw something called developmental apraxia of speech\n\nhttp://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/apraxia.asp | Every-body has an accent. The way how some-one speaks, reveals where their ancestors came from.An accent does not make a person better than any other. How-ever if accents is the issue I love the Jamaican accent. Jamaicans talk real pretty. | eng_Latn | 28,765 |
The first years in an L2-speaking environment: A comparison of Japanese children and adults learning American English | native italian speakers ' perception and production of english vowels . | Quantum Random Self-Modifiable Computation | eng_Latn | 28,766 |
what is a hearing interpreter | Oral Interpreter-Transliterators transliterate a spoken message from a person who hears to a person who is deaf or hard of hearing. They possess the ability to understand and repeat the message and intent of the speech and mouth movements of the person who is deaf or hard-of-hearing. | Sign language interpreters. Sign language is used by many people who are deaf or hard of hearing. It is a visually interactive language that uses a combination of hand motions, body gestures, and facial expressions. There are several different types of sign language, including American Sign Language (ASL) and Signed English. Oral interpreters. | eng_Latn | 28,767 |
what is phonemic awarencess | Phonemic awareness is a subset of phonological awareness in which listeners are able to hear, identify and manipulate phonemes, the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning. Separating the spoken word cat into three distinct phonemes, /k/ , /ae/ , æ /and/ , t requires phonemic. awareness | Different tests measure different skills. Reading skills include: Letters (LTRS): Child identifies letters names and sounds, or points to letters in response to letter names or sounds. Phonological Awareness (PA): Phonemic awareness is an umbrella term that refers to the awareness of individual sounds in words.ou will learn about reading skills, tests that are used to measure reading skills, and answers to frequently asked questions about reading tests. Reading is the gateway skill to learning. In third grade, the focus of your childâs education changes from learning to read to reading to learn. | eng_Latn | 28,768 |
echolalic defined | This article is about the speech disorder. For the album by Something for Kate, see Echolalia (album). Echolalia (also known as echologia or echophrasia) is defined as the unsolicited repetition of vocalizations made by another person (by the same person is called palilalia). In its profound form it is automatic and effortless. | An echoic is a verbal operant which occurs in response to the verbal behavior of another person (or to a textual prompt such as a written model). It is the point-to-point (i.e. word for word) imitation of the model. The ability to imitate is necessary for the acquisition of many skills including language. | eng_Latn | 28,769 |
is hold mute | the mute mate is a trumpet mute holder which will keep up to 4 mutes close at hand during performance designed by a jazz trumpeter and professionally manufactured the mute mate attaches in mere seconds and remains sturdy throughout the entire performance | A mute in speech is a letter that is silent and also an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth which stops the passage of the breath, such as the letters p, b, d, k, and t. The word mute comes from the Latin mutus meaning unable to speak. Last Editorial Review: 5/13/2016. | eng_Latn | 28,770 |
is umm a word | Umms happen! Filler words like umms and ahhs are not fatal. Audiences wonât notice a couple of them, but the problem is when âUmmsâ infest your speech like ants at summertime picnic. I find that filler words happen most when you transition from one thought to another in a speech. | Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. It is one of the three times a year when we conduct our employee communications forums (ECFs) at University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), and these days are always full of preparation, volunteering, long hours, anticipation, rehearsal, execution, feedback, affirmation, surprise, and relief. | eng_Latn | 28,771 |
which disorder is characterized by involuntary, rapid repetitions of words or phrases? | Palilalia must be differentiated from other complex tic disorders (such as echolalia), stuttering, and logoclonia. In contrast to stuttering or logoclonia, palilalic repetitions tend to consist of complete sections of words or phrases, are often repeated many times, and the speaker has no difficulty initiating speech. | Characteristics[edit] Palilalia is defined as the repetition of the speaker's words or phrases, often for a varying number of repeats. Repeated units are generally whole sections of words and are larger than a syllable, with words being repeated the most often, followed by phrases, and then syllables or sounds. | eng_Latn | 28,772 |
define received pronunciation | Proper noun[edit] Received Pronunciation. The form of pronunciation of the English language traditionally spoken by the educated classes of the south-east of England, considered to be a standard (see received) and used as such in the pronunciation schemes of most British dictionaries. Abbreviation: RP. | received. 1 transitive verb. 2 1 : to come into possession of : acquire receive a gift. 3 2a : to act as a receptacle or container for the cistern receives water from the roofb : to assimilate through the mind or senses receive new ideas. 4 3a : to permit to enter : admitb : welcome, greetc : to react to in a specified manner. | eng_Latn | 28,773 |
spell liaison definition | liaison(n.) Hence: A person whose function it is to maintain such communication. liaison(n.) (Phonetics) A pronunciation of a consonant sound that would be otherwise silent, such as the final consonant of certain French words, when the following word begins with a vowel sound. | Field faculty liaison: The Field Faculty Liaison is a faculty member of the School of Social Work who teaches the field seminar class students take concurrently with field placement. This person serves as a liaison between the University and the placement site. | eng_Latn | 28,774 |
paralanguage is _______. | Coined in the 1950s, the term paralanguage refers to the non-lexical features of spoken language that aid in conveying meaning. There are several forms of paralinguistic communication, and we've learned many of them so well that they often require little or no conscious effort to employ or to understand. | Paras (Japanese: ãã©ã¹ Parasu) is a Bug/Grass-type Pokémon introduced in Generation I. Paras is very crablike, as it has six legs. | eng_Latn | 28,775 |
What is the hardest language to learn? | Most of the foreign language students who come to my parents' language centre say that English is in fact one of the EASIEST languages they have ever learnt (and many have studied several languages in the course of their study). This is because English has significantly fewer *rules* to learn than other languages (Danish for example follows grammatical rules almost completely unswervingly). The students speak according to what they have heard said before, and learn through doing rather than learning long and complex tables of grammar.\n\nAtop that, English is based almost entirely on words that have come from other cultures. It has very few words that are entirely unique (if any). Words like 'frost,' 'candle,'\n'stand' (and I'm just choosing words more or less at random here) can be linked to common words in other languages - 'frorst' in Icelandic, 'candelabra' from Latin, 'stand' from 'standen' in German. Even the word for 'man' can be linked to Eastern Sanskrit.\n\nI would argue that the Eastern languages are the hardest for a westerner to learn, as they are so completely different from the languages to which we are accustomed. The script is different, the grammar is *completely* different and there are hardly any cognates (words that are similar to English words, such as the French words 'cinema' and 'hotel').\n\nSo I'd go with Korean, or Chinese. Both are very difficult for Westerners to get to grips with (very few ever become fluent), and even the most proficient students struggle with pronunciation. | I would say ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) because it traps you inside your limp body, sort of like being buried alive, and for a long time. Look at poor Stephen Hawking... a brilliant mind trapped in a useless shell, that would totally suck. | eng_Latn | 28,776 |
What is the recruitment process of Accenture? | What is the placement process of Accenture? | What are the shift timings in accenture? | eng_Latn | 28,777 |
toeic meaning | The Test of English for International Communication is an English language test designed specifically to measure the everyday English skills of people working in an international environment. There are different forms of the exam: The TOEIC Listening & Reading Test consists of two equally graded tests of comprehension assessment activities totaling a possible 990 score; There are also the TOEIC Speaking and Writing Tests. The TOEIC speaking test is composed of tasks that assess pronunciation, | Definition of toe. 1 1a (1) : one of the terminal members of the vertebrate foot (2) : the fore end of a foot or hoofb : a terminal segment of a limb of an invertebratec : the forepart of something worn on the foot the toe of a boot. | eng_Latn | 28,778 |
Autodetect spell-checker language in Chrome using custom rules? | Have Chrome autodetect language before spelling checking? | Have Chrome autodetect language before spelling checking? | eng_Latn | 28,779 |
If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know? | A dictionary is a reference book for spelling. Therefore, words are spelled correctly in the dictionary. Any other spelling is incorrect. | Spell check comes with the Microsoft Office Suite. All products Word, Excel, Powerpoint contain them.. | eng_Latn | 28,780 |
How do I pronounce some possessive forms of words whose pronunciations end with s? The examples come below. Sussex's Case's anus's How do I pronounce them? | What is the pronunciation of the possessive words that already end in s? Possible Duplicate: My name is Greg — this is Greg 's post. If my name ended with an 's', I am aware of the proper apostrophe usage (James → James'), but how should this be pronounced? Phonetically, am I Jameses best friend or James best friend? | Where can I ask questions for website recommendations? Is there any Stack Exchange site where I can ask others to recommend me good web sites for solving specific problems? For example I would like to know if there is any URL shortening website that can allow me to define the url. For example instead of http://bit.ly/1gX2dD0 I would like it to be http://bit.ly/superflow - if "superflow" is not available then I will invent another word. I can imagine that such services are paid but I don't need the link to last more than one day, and maybe there is such a website. | eng_Latn | 28,781 |
Indefinite Article for "s-t-path" I am currently writing a (mathematical) paper, which considers so called paths in graphs. The start of a path is usually denoted by the letter s and the end of the path is denoted by t. The whole path is then called "s-t-path" and my question is about which indefinite article to use with it. The selected answer in says to just use 'a' or 'an' according to how you pronounce what follows. This would imply that one should write "a s-t-path", because the s goes with a (a superhero, etc.). When I am actually using the construct in a spoken sentence, however, what I would be saying is "an s-t-path". There are 39,700 google search results for "an s-t-path" versus 41,900 results for "a s-t-path", which is to show that this topic truly divides the nation ;-) | When should I use "a" vs "an"? In the following example, is it appropriate to use a or an as the indefinite article, and why? He ate __ green apple. I know that in the case of just "apple", it would be "an apple," but I've heard conflicting answers for "green apple," where the noun is separated from the article by an adjective. Also, which is more appropriate in this case: He ate __ enormous Pop-Tart. | When should I use "a" versus "an" in front of a word beginning with the letter h? A basic grammar rule is to use an instead of a before a vowel sound. Given that historic is not pronounced with a silent h, I use “a historic”. Is this correct? What about heroic? Should be “It was a heroic act” or “It was an heroic act”? I remember reading somewhere that the h is sometimes silent, in which case it’s an, and when the h is pronounced, it’s a. But then I also remember reading that it depends on which syllable is stressed. And I also think I read somewhere that it might differ between British and American English. Personally, I pronounce the h, and believe that a is correct. I find that it sounds incorrect to use an and pronounce heroic without the h. So how do I know when to use a and when to use an with a word beginning with the letter h? Are both acceptable or is there one that is correct? | eng_Latn | 28,782 |
When do you pronounce 'neither' as [nˈiːð.ə(ɹ)] and when [nˈaɪð.ə(ɹ)]? | Is there a rule in British English about how to pronounce "either"? | Using "nor" in a list without "neither" | eng_Latn | 28,783 |
What is the way to master the pronunciation of Danish R letter within words? | What is the way to master Danish R letter pronunciation? | What is the best way to improve Russian pronunciation? | eng_Latn | 28,784 |
how to make words ending in y plural | Nouns ending in-y. If the noun ends with a consonant plus-y, make the plural by changing-y to-ies : If the noun ends with-ch, -s, -sh, -x, or-z, add-es to form the plural: Thereâs one exception to this rule. | Plurals of nouns in -y. Nouns ending in a y preceded by a consonant usually drop the y and add -ies (pronounced /iz/, or /aiz/ in words where the y is pronounced /ai/): Words ending in quy also follow this pattern: | eng_Latn | 28,785 |
is there a way to set the tabs on word | There are two ways to set tabs. By either using the Tabs Dialog Box or using the ruler. Setting tabs by using the ruler is an easy, two-step process. Click the Tab Alignment button on the left of the ruler to choose the type of alignment and then click the position on the ruler to set the tab. | Define one tab at 2.5 cm (or 1 inch). Insert. exactly one tab character in each transcription line: ⢠if there is a speaker label in the line, the tab is inserted immediately following it. ⢠if there is no speaker label in the line, the tab is the first character of the line. Note that you should NOT use tabs for other purposes, such as inserting blank space in a line in order to. align overlaps vertically (just insert spaces instead). | eng_Latn | 28,786 |
Rat prolactin in the dense cores of secretory granules of the pituitary gland is a Lubrol-insoluble aggregate. In GH(4)C(1) cells, newly synthesized rat prolactin and growth hormone were soluble, but after 30 min about 40% converted to a Lubrol-insoluble form. Transport from the endoplasmic reticulum is necessary for conversion to Lubrol insolubility, since incubating cells with brefeldin A or at 15 degrees C reduced formation of insoluble rat (35)S-prolactin. Formation of Lubrol-insoluble aggregates has protein and cell specificity; newly synthesized human growth hormone expressed in AtT20 cells underwent a 40% conversion to Lubrol insolubility with time, but albumin did not, and human growth hormone expressed in COS cells underwent less than 10% conversion to Lubrol insolubility. del32-46 growth hormone, a naturally occurring form of growth hormone, and P89L growth hormone underwent conversion, although they were secreted more slowly, indicating that there is some tolerance in structural requirements for aggregation. An intracellular compartment with an acidic pH is not necessary for conversion to Lubrol insolubility, because incubation with chloroquine or bafilomycin slowed, but did not prevent, the conversion. GH(4)C(1) cells treated with estradiol, insulin, and epidermal growth factor accumulate more secretory granules and store more prolactin, but not more growth hormone, than untreated cells; Lubrol-insoluble aggregates of prolactin and growth hormone formed to the same extent in hormone-treated or untreated GH(4)C(1) cells, but prolactin was retained longer in hormone-treated cells. These findings indicate that aggregation alone is not sufficient to cause retention of secretory granule proteins, and there is an additional selective process. | The zinc binding hormone pituitary human prolactin (hPRL) is stored in secretory granules of specialized cells in an aggregated form. Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are anionic polysaccharides commonly associated with secretory granules, indicating their involvement in granule formation. Here we, for the first time, study the impact of GAGs in combination with Zn(2+) on the reversible hPRL aggregation across the pH range of 7.4-5.5. Zn(2+) alone causes hPRL aggregation at pH 7.4, while aggregation between pH 7.4 and 5.5 requires both Zn(2+) and GAGs. GAGs alone cause hPRL aggregation below pH 5.5. Comprehensive thermal stability investigations show that hPRL is particularly destabilized toward thermal denaturation at pH 5.5 and that GAGs increasingly destabilize hPRL at decreasing pH values. We propose that Zn(2+) causes hPRL aggregation through low-affinity Zn(2+) binding sites on hPRL with GAGs facilitating Zn(2+) binding by neutralizing repulsive positive charges of hPRL in the acidic environments of the TGN and mature secretory granules. In a manner independent of the aggregation-causing agent(s), the different hPRL aggregates show very similar secondary structure and amorphous morphology. We speculate that this may be a recognizable sorting signal in the formation of hPRL granular vesicles. | ZY-3, which was launched on January 9, 2012, is the first stereo mapping satellite in China. The initial accuracy of direct georeferencing with the onboard three-line camera (TLC) imagery is low. Sensor geometric calibration with bundle block adjustment is used to improve the georeferencing accuracy. A new on-orbit sensor calibration method that can correct the misalignment angles between the spacecraft and the TLC and the misalignment of charge-coupled device is described. All of the calibration processes are performed using a multistrip data set. The control points are automatically matched from existing digital ortho map and digital elevation model. To fully evaluate the accuracy of different calibration methods, the calibrated parameters are used as input data to conduct georeferencing and bundle adjustment with a total of 19 strips of ZY-3 TLC data. A systematic error compensation model is introduced as the sensor model in bundle adjustment to compensate for the position and attitude errors. Numerous experiments demonstrate that the new calibration model can largely improve the external accuracy of direct georeferencing from the kilometer level to better than 20 m in both plane and height. A further bundle block adjustment with medium-accuracy ground control points (GCPs), using these calibrated parameters, can achieve external accuracy of about 4 m in plane and 3 m in height. Higher accuracy of about 1.3 m in plane and 1.7 m in height can be achieved by bundle adjustment using high-accuracy GCPs. | eng_Latn | 28,787 |
Eddy correlation measurements of evaporation and sensible heat flux over Arctic Sea ice | A sonic anemometer, lyman alpha humidiometer, and thermistor thermometer were operated on ice at 75°N, 15°W in March-April 1972 as part of the Aidjex pilot study. Spectra of temperature and humidity fluctuations and cospectra for the sensible and latent heat fluxes were similar to those published for neutral conditions over sea and land. Bulk transfer coefficients were CT = 1.2 × 10−3 and CQ = 0.55 × 10−3, respectively. The Bowen ratio of sensible to latent heat fluxes ranged from 1 to 15 and can be obtained from values of the temperature and humidity spectra at low frequencies except when the latent heat flux is very small. These data were recorded at the spring equinox, and the dominant feature of the heat fluxes is their diurnal variation. Evaporation continued for several hours after the sensible heat flux changed to the downward direction. Over Robeson Channel in July 1972 the heat transfer coefficient was CT = 1.0 × 10−3 for stable conditions. | Acetabular wear of total hip replacements can be estimated from radiographs based on the apparent ::: displacement of the femoral head relative to the acetabular cup. A wire marker is often attached to the polyethylene ::: cup rim and its projection can be modelled as an ellipse. The centre of this ellipse is not the projection ::: of the centre of the rim so its use as a reference point to measure wear can be problematic. The implications of ::: the resulting eccentricity errors were investigated. The 3D poses of acetabular cups estimated from projected ::: ellipse parameters were used to estimate error bounds and expected error values. The effect of correcting for ::: these errors on wear measurements was investigated using standard clinical anteroposterior radiographs and an ::: automated ellipse fitting method. | eng_Latn | 28,788 |
Ultrasonic Ranging System Reversing Design and Research Based on SCM AT89S51 | This paper analyzes the basic principles of ultrasonic distance measurement,based on this proposed design ideas and to solve problems.This design and the achievement is based on SCM AT89S51 performance.After calibration,its accuracy reaches one cm.Vehicle collision avoidance system completely satisfies the design requirements,makes up the mirror deficiencies. | This paper describes the development and current use of GIS in the work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). As the national body of survey and record for Scotland, many areas of RCAHMS work make extensive use of GIS, from coordinating field recording and deskbased mapping, to management of extensive datasets. The impact of digital technologies on both recording and presenting the field archaeology of Scotland are explored. Examples of current practice are presented, concluding with a discussion of challenges, including INSPIRE, and the need to develop spatial data standards for cultural heritage, in the present and for the future. | eng_Latn | 28,789 |
If you want a model to determine how the orbits should be, we have the finest orrery ever built here in the camp. | There is a very fine orrery in the camp. | The camp has an orrery, but it is of very poor quality. | eng_Latn | 28,790 |
2 POINT ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES | estimate two different ways | estimate one way | yue_Hant | 28,791 |
These parameters were used to calibrate WTP for the visibility changes resulting from the Clear Skies Act. | These parameters were utilized to calibrate WTP for visibility changes via the Clear Skies Act. | There were no parameters used to calibrate WTP for visibility changes. | eng_Latn | 28,792 |
Relative navigation algorithm research of chaser spacecraft | Autonomous Inertial Relative Navigation with SightLine-Stabilized Integrated Sensors for Spacecraft Rendezvous | Reference frames in allocentric representations are invariant across static and active encoding | eng_Latn | 28,793 |
A high sensitivity uniaxial resonant accelerometer | Low-noise real-time measurement of the position of movable structures in MEMS | Sliding Mode Observer Based Attitude Determination of Spacecrafts Without Angular Velocity Measurement | kor_Hang | 28,794 |
Development of Advanced Rocket Engine Technology for Precision Guided Missiles | PROGRESS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL FOR THE ARMY'S IMPINGING STREAM VORTEX ENGINE | Map-matching for low-sampling-rate GPS trajectories | eng_Latn | 28,795 |
Thermomechanical analyses of laser precision joining for optoelectronic components | High manufacturability and high reliable 10Gb/s electro-absorption laser package | A LiDAR Odometry for Outdoor Mobile Robots Using NDT Based Scan Matching in GPS-denied environments | eng_Latn | 28,796 |
AN IMAGE STABILIZATION EXPERIMENT AT THE CANADA-FRANCE-HAWAII TELESCOPE | High-resolution ground-based coronagraphy using image-motion compensation. | Completely Stale Transmitter Channel State Information is Still Very Useful | yue_Hant | 28,797 |
The integrated fine alignment method considering DVL error | DVL aided fine alignment for marine SINS | DVL aided fine alignment for marine SINS | eng_Latn | 28,798 |
Automatic picking of delays on 3D angle gathers | Resolution of Small Velocity Anomalies by Wide Azimuth Reflection Data Tomography | No-capture hardware feature for securing sensitive information | eng_Latn | 28,799 |
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