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Reifinger, James L., Jr. – General Music Today, 2020
The teaching of music-reading skills has been cited as a neglected area of music education needing improvement. Music reading is the process of translating notation into sounds. Producing the notated sounds by singing, more specifically referred to as sight-singing, is especially demanding because it requires the individual to first mentally…
Descriptors: Music Reading, Music Education, Educational Improvement, Acoustics
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Konz, Nicholas; Ruiz, Michael J. – Physics Education, 2018
The French horn is used to introduce the three basic properties of periodic waves: amplitude, frequency, and waveform. These features relate to the perceptual characteristics of loudness, pitch, and timbre encountered in everyday language. Visualizations are provided in the form of oscilloscope screenshots, spectrograms, and Fourier spectra to…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Musical Instruments, Video Technology
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2015
Every language has its own rhythm. Unlike many other languages in the world, English depends on the correct pronunciation of stressed and unstressed or weakened syllables recurring in the same phrase or sentence. Mastering the rhythm of English makes speaking more effective. Experiments have shown that we tend to hear speech as more rhythmical…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Syllables, Grammar, Phonology
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Bidelman, Gavin M.; Gandour, Jackson T.; Krishnan, Ananthanarayan – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
Neural encoding of pitch in the auditory brainstem is known to be shaped by long-term experience with language or music, implying that early sensory processing is subject to experience-dependent neural plasticity. In language, pitch patterns consist of sequences of continuous, curvilinear contours; in music, pitch patterns consist of relatively…
Descriptors: Music, Vowels, Phonology, Musicians
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Engwall, Olov – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2012
Pronunciation errors may be caused by several different deviations from the target, such as voicing, intonation, insertions or deletions of segments, or that the articulators are placed incorrectly. Computer-animated pronunciation teachers could potentially provide important assistance on correcting all these types of deviations, but they have an…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Phonetics, Pronunciation, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Derwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J. – Language Teaching, 2010
Over the past few decades perspectives on second language (L2) pronunciation have evolved from pessimistic appraisals of the capabilities of L2 learners and doubts about the value of instruction to a view of pronunciation teaching as an effective and important part of language pedagogy. Earlier research on the teaching of pronunciation dwelt…
Descriptors: Social Status, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
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Holmes, Stephen D.; Roberts, Brian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
A harmonic that begins before the other harmonics contributes less than they do to vowel quality. This reduction can be partly reversed by accompanying the leading portion with a captor tone. This effect is usually interpreted as reflecting perceptual grouping of the captor with the leading portion. Instead, it has recently been proposed that the…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Cues, Auditory Perception, Vowels
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Li, Min; Kambhamettu, Chandra; Stone, Maureen – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2005
In this paper, a new automatic contour tracking system, EdgeTrak, for the ultrasound image sequences of human tongue is presented. The images are produced by a head and transducer support system (HATS). The noise and unrelated high-contrast edges in ultrasound images make it very difficult to automatically detect the correct tongue surfaces. In…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Human Body, Acoustics, Models