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A cacophony is a mix of loud sounds.

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I listened but could not hear any sound.

Japanese Mother Japanese Patricia Kuhl During the production of speech, when babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.

If the activity of the gene was restored, the frequency of emitted sounds also was restored.

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Since there is no air on the moon, there is no sound at all.

Of course, different species of cicada will appear together, resulting in a cacophony of different calls.

I put my fingers in my ears to block out the terrible sounds.

Many native speakers of Japanese have trouble hearing the difference between B and V.

In insects, tympanal organs are used to hear distant sounds.

The frequencies an ear can hear are limited to a specific range of frequencies.

It does not make any sounds, and refuses to chase after rats.

It should be noted however that many of the film's original sounds were replaced.

Well, this habit of suppressing sound has meant that our relationship with sound has become largely unconscious.

Malapascua is an island of relaxation, peace and meditative sounds like wind and waves on the beach.

Let me start with the observation that most of the sound around us is accidental, and much of it is unpleasant.

The whole ball up to the last quadrille was for Kitty an enchanted dream of gay flowers, sounds and movements.

But what I want to get to, the next frontier, very quickly, and why the stethoscope is on its way out, is because we can transcend listening to the valve sounds, and the breath sounds, because now, introduced by G.E. is a handheld ultra sound.

No Puerto Rican protest goes ahead without la plena, the favourite rythmic drumbeat on demonstrations.

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The process, however, cannot be completely analogous to humans, because whales do not have to exhale in order to produce sound.

But for the casual listener, it may be more difficult to imagine the colliding influences that spawned this array of sounds and rhythms.

At the same time, the regional struggle currently playing out in Syria is becoming increasingly entangled with the other major source of war sounds Iran s nuclear program.

Reid Willis' music replaces the natural sounds of the place, as rhythm and tempo adapt to the flow of the rivers and the laughter of young monks.

For example, your occasional illusionary perception of your name spoken in a crowd occurs because this utterance is uniquely important.

Evan Grant demonstrates the science and art of cymatics, a process for making soundwaves visible. Useful for analyzing complex sounds , it also makes complex and beautiful designs.

For many Oromos, though, adopting the Roman alphabet is a matter of selecting an alphabet that best fits the Afan Oromo sound system.

In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.

The tiniest, softest, softest sound to something that is so broad, so huge, so incredible! There's always something it may sound good up there, may not be so good there.

This means that It does not normally use combinations of letters to represent single sounds, the way English does with , and , or single letters to represent multiple sounds the way represents or in English.

Thus far, however, scientists do not know whether the function of Foxp2 and, consequently, of SRPX2 controlled by it, is linked with the purely mechanical properties of the formation of sounds or with more subtle processes.

Thus, the continuity of an ancestral language that has survived orally is now assured as a language with 36 consonants and three vowels (more sounds than Quechua and Aymara combined).

Finally, the IPA does not usually have separate letters for two sounds if no known language makes a distinction between them, a property known as selectiveness .

And so I expected to walk into this building and be met with this cacophony of honking and braying and squawking, but instead, when we stepped through those doors and into the building, it was eerily silent.

We find in their non verbal communication this is very rich they have a lot of sounds, which they use in different circumstances, but they also use touch, posture, gesture, and what do they do?

The tapes from my TV show weren't very useful because there were too many other kinds of audio involved movie soundtracks, for example, or Gene Siskel arguing with me and my words often had a particular emphasis that didn't fit into a sentence well enough.