Sentences with phrase «vowel sounds at»

They sent an acoustic signal through the vocal tracts of nine sopranos and used a microphone to measure how the signal changed when the sopranos sang vowel sounds at various pitches.

Not exact matches

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

A small group of children practices the English alphabet, sounding out the vowels and consonants in high - pitched voices around a table at Bright Star Kids University in Buffalo Grove.

With its daring and strong Z sound at the beginning and with the soft and beautiful elongated vowel sounds throughout, Zuri is definitely a winner.

Some babies begin to make some vowel sounds (like «ah - ah» or «ooh - ooh») at about 2 months.

At about eight weeks, babies will start cooing, making vowel sounds like ah, ah.

The air sacs acted like bass drums, resonating at low frequencies, and causing vowel sounds to merge; Lucy's baby would have had a greatly reduced vocabulary.

In that study, published in January 2015, it was reported that a female orangutan called Tilda at Cologne Zoo, in Germany, was able to make sounds comparable to human consonant and vowel - like calls at the same rhythm and pace as human speech.

So he looked at the harmonics of vowel sounds, which are created when air passes through vocal folds that can be controlled with a precision similar to the range of a musical instrument.

«It's really about how you modify the vowels at the top of the voice so that the words are still understandable but so that you are also making the best sound that you can make,» she says.

She trains him to change vowel and consonant sounds («you hold them too long,» she says at one point), and gives him flash cards to practice with at home.

The Mad Men star is more than able to hold her own as Ginger's beleaguered mother, but her strained attempts at capturing English vowel sounds take away from an otherwise fine performance.

Finally, on Friday, the teacher rereads the story a final time, pausing at each word with a long vowel sound, while the students say the word aloud.

For example, while one or more consonants at the end of a syllable (closed syllable type) signals a short vowel sound, a vowel at the end signals a long vowel sound, etc..

Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows.