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- noun Plural form of
formant .
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(known as formants) but much fainter than they would be for a vowel.
Literal-Minded 2010
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(known as formants) but much fainter than they would be for a vowel.
Literal-Minded 2010
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(known as formants) but much fainter than they would be for a vowel.
Literal-Minded 2010
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(known as formants) but much fainter than they would be for a vowel.
Literal-Minded 2010
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This immediately smells like false parsing to me since one could equally come up with other ad hoc 'toponymic formants' like *-asia and find examples like Ocrasia and Planasia to serve as 'evidence' with far too much ease to suit my skeptical nature.
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This immediately smells like false parsing to me since one could equally come up with other ad hoc 'toponymic formants' like *-asia and find examples like Ocrasia and Planasia to serve as 'evidence' with far too much ease to suit my skeptical nature.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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Whistled languages emulate the tone, prosody (rhythm/stress), intonation and vowel formants of a natural language.
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The vocal parts of a song are just synthesis of appropriate fundamental frequency, overtones, and formants, using a software model of the sufficient parameters of the human vocal tract to recreate a close-enough timbre upon “decoding”.
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Ross et al. analyzed the vowel formants of everyday speech and found, more often than not, that the frequency relationships correspond to the intervals of the 12-note chromatic scale.
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Ross et al. analyzed the vowel formants of everyday speech and found, more often than not, that the frequency relationships correspond to the intervals of the 12-note chromatic scale.
Archive 2007-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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