Sentences with phrase «on syllables»

If you feel inclined to brush up on your Chinese pronunciation try visiting pinyinpractice.com (click on the syllables in the middle of the screen to hear how they are supposed to be pronounced).

Two third grade students at Bloomington's Clear Creek Elementary play a matching game as part of teacher Amy Swafford's lesson on syllables.

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

So if a baby says «ba, ba», the parent should repeat it and then expand on the syllable, saying, «ball, ball.

Probabilities also enter the picture because each phoneme state can correspond to many different possible spectra in a frame of the spectrogram, again depending on all the different ways that someone could produce the sound — tonal inflections, the stress on the syllable, the overall pitch and timbre of the voice and so on.

We offer for your reading enjoyment the following sampling of buzzword haiku, created exclusively with words from your responses (with a bit of latitude on the syllable count).

When the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee meets on Thursday to take a closer look at NCLB waivers, Pam Geisseihardt will be hanging on every syllable spoken by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and several state education chiefs who are scheduled to testify.

The engineers hung on every syllable uttered, noting every gesticulation and throwing a satisfied smile at every «holy $ & # *!!»

Not exact matches

Five years, a dropped syllable and one Y Combinator stint later, Tilt has morphed into a Venmo - for - college - groups, a payments company that's growing 41 percent every month on university campuses.

Cutting's son, then 2, was just beginning to talk and called his beloved stuffed yellow elephant «Hadoop» (with the stress on the first syllable).

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.

Where other coaches I have had would furiously scribble elaborate plays on the whiteboard, Coach Dave would simply have us ponder his elegantly written nine syllables.

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.

Knowing about this tie, someone on this thread who's been, say, taking Tony's perspective could conclude that I'm in cahoots with Becky's every syllable.

The EMphasis is on the wrong syllABle when it comes to the great commission.

@sam scoville — for one who hangs on every nuance and every syllable uttered or written, surely you of all people can empathize?

Aristotle's actual word is ousia (accented on the second syllable), etymologically a derivative of the Greek word «to be» (einai).

If theologians like Gordon Kaufman and Stanley Hauerwas are plainspoken Americans, reared on Strunk and White, then Coakley is the George Eliot of theologians, whose theology always comes in the most syllables possible.

For in a very real sense, the hatred for art that now assumes the guise of so «called avant «garde art is rooted in that same iconoclastic polemic that animates every syllable of Plato and Nietzsche, not to mention a host of other art critics (in the literal sense of that word) from Origen, St. Augustine, and Blaise Pascal to those Russian commissars of art who ruled on matters of taste by diktat and ukase.

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

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

Just remember to put the emphasis on the last syllable and bat your eyelashes so you're getting extra French points, haha.

We're here today to familiarize you with some of the beauteous syllables enjoyed over the last four years by college football fans, so you don't have to look up on draft night all, «Wait, there's a guy named Barkevious?»

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

tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of endless gallic bullshit....4 th place junkies wetting themselves over 3rd place finish should realise that other teams will be strengthening in summer definitely the others in top 4 and always a surprise or two outside... wenger has f @@@@@ us over for ten years now selling top players and bringing in a string of jokers... yes that changed with ozil and sanchez... but giroud coquelin and monreal while all decent and can help us to another 4th place but not beyond that (coquelin could still be a top class player but ai nt there yet) walcott and podolski will never deliver and merteshaker would not be in any other top 15 team in europe... so the idea that the squad is on the cusp of greatness is moronic and confirmed by end of season performance... we need four quality signings but i would settle for two (attacker plus DM) and an upgrade (left back)..

There is no higher authority on a certain team, that is playing in a certain big shouldered city, that is second to none, and it just so happens to start with «Ch», and ends in a «go», and those syllables sandwich an «ica», much like my Turano bread sandwiches around a classic heaping helping of Italian Beef.

Coryell's system allowed for a three - digit tag to be added on the end of each formation, giving three receivers their assignments in just a few syllables, rather than a long string of words.

No one has ever pronounced «perilous» like «pair - RAH - luss» before, I don't think, and Fergie throws everything she has behind that second syllable to knock us all on our asses with a minute - and - a-half still to go in the song.

Two seasons removed from NAIA status, they upset five straight teams in the postseason on the road, logging 15,000 miles and committing to memory every syllable of the preflight safety instructions.

An early emphasis on teaching letters, sounds, and syllables can sap the enjoyment right out of story time.

For baby girls, three - syllable names are plentiful on the list of popular names, and many are feminine and melodic - sounding.

Over the next few months, he will start to stand holding on to things, pull to a stand, jabber and combine syllables, crawl and transfer things from hand to hand.

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

There have been several names on this list that are simple, four letter, two syllable names.

Note they have two syllables AND 6 letters each, that both are also last names AND both could be for a boy or girl (though more on the girly side if you ask me.)

«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.»

Read part of the rhyme («Round and round the haystack»), then ask your child to clap the syllables or play them on a rhythm instrument (demonstrate this the first few times).

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.

The only question UFT President Michael Mulgrew had about billionaire Betsy DeVos, President - elect Donald Trump's choice for education secretary, was how to pronounce her last name: long or short «o» on the second syllable?

Gottfried found that if you teach someone to speak very rhythmically, alternate syllables by a minor third and tap with his prominent hand on every beat, that combination is magical for restoring speech.

On the other hand, it's a general rule of good writing to use no more syllables than necessary.

In studies of adults, Petitto has found that both hearing and deaf adults use the planum temporale — mainly on the left side — to process syllables, whether signing or speaking aloud.

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.

About a minute later, those who initially heard six syllables heard 18 syllables, and were given a choice: They saw two long rectangles on the left and right side of a split screen.

They reasoned that if the infants looked longer at the right - hand rectangle, they were associating «more» (based on the newly heard 18 syllables) with «right.»

An experimenter's synchronized taps on an elbow or knee enabled 4 - month - olds to notice nonsense words embedded in spoken strings of syllables, say psycholinguist Amanda Seidl of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and...

Remarkably, a similar pattern emerged in participants» brain responses: worse - formed syllables (e.g., lbif) exerted different demands on the brain than syllables that are well - formed (e.g., blif).

«But many of the readings based on the ogham alphabet contained good syllables.»