acoustic signal

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meanings of acousticand signal

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acoustic
adjective
uk /əˈkuː.stɪk/ us /əˈkuː.stɪk/
relating to sound ...
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signal
noun[C]
uk /ˈsɪɡ.nəl/ us /ˈsɪɡ.nəl/
an action, movement, or sound that gives information, a message, a warning, or ...
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Examples of acoustic signal

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Those variations in the acousticsignal that do not contribute to differences in meaning are simply not perceived by the listener.
The only difference is that an acousticsignal (a short beep) was presented 800 ms after the onset of the picture presentation.
The acousticsignal corresponding to a spoken nonword is subject to a variety of levels of analysis by the human perceptual system.
These unavoidable factors can lead to the actual acousticsignal consisting of more than just pure and natural human speech (pp. 36-7).
He argues that bottom-up skills must also be developed so that all the components of the acousticsignal become meaningful units for the listener.
The confusion is thus unidirectional because of the physical properties of the acousticsignal.
It must be noted that for these items the temporal measures were based on the acousticsignal.
Anticipating my conclusion, when a periodic glottal wave is either obscured or not present, the acousticsignal cannot encode a salient pitch value.
However, we reject the view that a borrowed word constitutes a non-linguistic acousticsignal.
This is evidence of the effect that the mouth aperture has on an acousticsignal.
In other words, when children obey such a rule, they can only gather information from the acousticsignal.
Feedback, in contrast, would allow the reverse - transformation of the pattern derived from the acousticsignal to match the lexical form.
One illustration of the non-acoustic nature of the syllable is the fact that speakers of different languages may interpret the same acousticsignal as containing different numbers of syllables.
Application of rules to the hypothesized sequence containing "those" will lead to a pattern of landmarks and features that matches the pattern derived from the acousticsignal.
Thus, infants are not necessarily attending to individual phonemes, but may be responding to more general features of the acousticsignal, such as manner of articulation.
Gathercole suggests that the selective deficit in nonword repetition may be due to fast rates of transmission of the acousticsignal, but does not elaborate on this possibility.
By filtering out this irrelevant "noise" in the acousticsignal, the memory load put on the auditory system is greatly reduced and processing can proceed more quickly.
Determining the point at which to excise a target word produced in a sentence was guided by the acousticsignal to avoid including an acoustic cue from the previous word.
One possibility is that the processing of nonwords is a particularly demanding activity, due to the fast rates of transmission of information of the acousticsignal.
The acousticsignal in the vicinity of these landmarks is processed by a set of modules, each of which identifies a phonetic feature that was implemented by the speaker.
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