Sentences with phrase «as syllables»

On are (uniformly short) Japanese sounds, which Western writers interpret as syllables.

Teachers modeled word recognition strategies by: a) chunking of words into component units such as syllables, onset / rimes, or finding little words in big ones; b) sound and blending individual phonemes; c) considering known letter - sounds and what makes contextual sense.

Taking inspiration from linguists, who view spoken words as syllables that can be infinitely recombined, we seek to discover the «syllables» of behavior — and the patterns of brain activity that generate them.

In an OpEd in the New York Times New York edition today, neither he nor the New York Times in its bio mentions so much as a syllable about Rubin's infamous tenure at Citigroup.

Not exact matches

They draw out the last syllable as the pitch ascends and the volume builds into a brain - stabbing physical force.

But in October, he announced that Walgreens Boots Alliance was buying, for $ 17.2 billion, Rite Aid (or as he pronounces it, with a rolling «r» and a few extra syllables, «Rrrrrrriiiiite Aiiiiide»).

Indra Nooyi IN - dra NEW - ee Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi's name will come out as smooth as a refreshing cola drink if you remember the emphasis is on the first syllable in both her first and last name.

The Fed's FOMC is concluding another two - day meeting today and will issue its latest policy statement around 2 p.m. EST, as the idiots on financial tv sit on the edge of their seat trying to figure out which word or syllable has changed from the last policy decision statement.

Lord Zealous is correct; I as a historian of religion and — is she rubbing it in as she draws out the third syllable?

In fact, it may be capable of containing a whole philosophy in its two syllables — or so I've been thinking recently, as I listen to the rock group Talking Heads.

You will immediately protest that I am canonizing every syllable of the New Testament as if it were part of the unchanging wisdom of God, and that I am varnishing its errors and its obsolete thought with the splendor of abiding truth.

• The eighteenth - century French writer and dramatist Nicolas Chamfort wrote: «Nearly all people live in slavery for the reason the Spartans gave us as the cause of the slavery of the Persians: they are not able to utter the syllable «no.»

Yet in Douthat's piece, as far as I can tell, not a syllable is inspired by the Good News.

Every single name is transliterated in the Old Testament exactly as it appears on the archaeological artifact — syllable for syllable, consonant for consonant.

«I see by your outfit that you are a pope - oh» (I needed 2 syllables) These words he did say as I boldly stepped by, «Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story, I was travelin around to 100 countries.»

Round about me on every side was the biggest congregation I ever had: behind the altar, on either side, and in front, row after row, sometimes crowding one upon the other, but all quiet and silent, as if they were straining their ears to catch every syllable of that tremendous act of Sacrifice — but every man was dead!

People are as free to ignore the verses from Matthew as they are to ignore the verses on divorce in Mark, but let us at least acknowledge that the words exist, out of respect for Christ Jesus, the Word Incarnate, whose every syllable is meant for our good.

Still, as the minutes floated on and floated by, he kept lying there, trying to remember the first name or at least the first letter or first syllable of the woman — a guess, a hazard, a Matteo Ricci way of trying to remember, trying

In unfolding it, in order to show his own cleverness and reading, and satisfy itching ears, he proceeded with a new method, expounding letters, syllables and proposition, the harmony of noun and verb, and that of noun substantive, and noun adjective... At last he... demonstrated the whole Trinity to be represented by these first rudiments of grammar, as clearly and plainly as it was possible for a mathematician to draw a triangle in the sand.»

Normally, I wouldn't choose the book of Revelation as 2:00 a.m. reading material, but all night long I'd been chasing the broken pieces of a prophecy around my head — something about tribes and tongues and nations, verses I knew but couldn't quite remember, like a poem with missing syllables or a song with forgotten words.

There the words used are mostly words of only one or two syllables — such words as life, food, body, clothing, birds, lilies, grass.

She informed the reporter that yes, the accent on the PM's name fell on the first syllable, as in AH - dern.

Jackson's delivery came in triplets when he got excited, always falling downhill off a big first syllable, the perfect blend of two gifts he received early in his life: a burly accent straight out of Roopville, Georgia, and a polish added by years as a broadcaster in radio and television.

Phil, as you know we agree on every syllable of every word you write about Wenger.

Your baby may also like repeating one syllable, such as «ba», «ma», «ga», or other consonant - vowel combinations, over and over.

From babbling strings of consonants like «babababa,» they will begin to produce recognizable syllables, such as «ga,» «ba,» and «da.»

Educators suggest using rhyming and clapping out the syllables of a word as they recite a short poem or sing a song to help them develop another skill know as phonological awareness (understanding how words are composed of a series of separate sounds in an exact order).

At this age most kids can join syllables together and jabber wordlike sounds, say «mama» and «dada,» and maybe say a couple of other words as well.

This awareness of the native language strengthens immensely during the preschool years, extending from sounds to more complex forms of phonetic awareness, such as the ability to tell you how many syllables are in a certain word.

Your child might mix up words with multiple syllables, such as «manimal» for «animal,» or «pasghetti» for «spaghetti.»

«Use a singsong voice as you read, breaking words into long syllables.»

As a guest on the Ellen show just before Chicago was born, Kim revealed she and Kanye were thinking of another one syllable name.

This four syllable name is as lovely as it is unique.

Picture taking the breath in as being «Re» and then the breath out as being the syllable «Lax.»

Just four letters and two syllables long, Keda can either be pronounced as KE - da, KEE - day or perhaps even Kay - da.

Also, it's a great choice with a long last name, or as a middle name, because it has just one syllable.

But as a name, it's sparkling and musical, with all the weight and beauty of four - syllable names.

«Double L - starting - syllable names such as Lily and Lolita are also catching on, and many moms are opting to use their maiden names for their babies.»

A 5 month old baby babbles and starts saying syllables such as «ma - ma».

They also communicate by making different sounds and using syllables such as da - da.

I think when they said baby talk, they did nt mean the high pitched voice mothers like us enjoy (as well as our babies) using when we talk to our babies.I believe they meant the non-sense string of syllables that others tend to use that is in no way resembling any word in the english language or any other language for that matter.I am bilingual and so is my husband and we make sure we talk to him using real words, high pitched or not.

Chance makes a cool baby name not only because of its strong one - syllable sound, but also because it's not as common as some of the other names on this list.

Emma has been seen used throughout history for several heroines, as a it balances refinement and beauty in just two - syllables.

Geer, in Sanskrit is Celebrity / Mountain / Praising / Invoking / words / fame / language / kind of mystical syllable Geer in Dutch = Spear The same sounds similar to the name, «Geert» Geert, in German = Brave / Hearty / Strength Geert is a variant of Scandivanian name, «Geir» Geir = Stone Wall While in Norwegian, Geir = Spear (Same as the Dutch meaning of «Geer»)

Babbling — the stringing together of repetitive syllables, as in da, da, da, da, da or ga, ga, ga, ga, ga — is one of the earliest stages of language acquisition.

Oller reported in 2010 that he had developed a customized algorithm to distinguish autistic toddlers from healthy children with a remarkable 86 percent accuracy, in part, by isolating syllables and analyzing them for acoustic features, such as jaw and tongue movement.

The most famous of the naturals was the Russian journalist S. V. Shereshevski, who could recall long lists of numbers memorized decades earlier, as well as poems, strings of nonsense syllables, and just about anything else he was asked to remember.

On average, newborns who heard six syllables followed by 18 syllables looked at the right - hand rectangle twice as long as the left, and vice versa.

Results showed the syllables that were infrequent and ill - formed, as determined by their linguistic structure, were harder for people to process.

People judge high vowels, such as «mil», as white, for example, and consider lower - toned syllables, such as «mol», as black.