Sentences with phrase «nonsense syllables»

"Nonsense syllables" refer to meaningless or made-up sounds or combinations of sounds. They don't have any specific meaning or purpose in a language. They are often used in experiments or studies to test memory or learning abilities because they don't have any pre-existing associations or meanings. Full definition
After coming up with a list of nonsense syllables, he memorized series of different lengths, uncovering patterns in the time it takes to learn, relearn and forget.
«Toward the end of your baby's first year, he'll babble in longer strings of varied short nonsense syllables, using the intonation and rhythm mimicking that of an adult,» Artemenko says.
The study enrolled 10 adult American English speakers who listened to a series of recordings of spoken nonsense syllables that began with sounds ranging between «s» to «shl» — a combination not found at the beginning of English words — and indicated by means of a button push whether they heard an initial «s» or «sh.»
Then they learned to read by pronouncing nonsense syllables formed by combining consonants with vowels, such as ba - be-bi.
This exhibition will present several of Camille Utterback's highly original interactive digital installations including Text Rain, in which letters seem to drop slowly and come to rest on the projected image of the gallery visitor, forming words and nonsense syllables into human shape.
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.
In minutes, he memorized complex math formulas, passages in foreign languages and tables consisting of 50 numbers or nonsense syllables.
Ebbinghaus studied the memorization of nonsense syllables, such as «WID» and «ZOF».
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