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Musical piece by Pauline Oliveros
Sound Patterns (1961) is a musical piece for a cappella mixed chorus by Pauline Oliveros. Oliveros won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1962
Sound_Patterns
Study of sound organization in languages
phonological theory that combines synchronic and diachronic accounts to sound patterns was initiated with Evolutionary Phonology in recent years. This section
Phonology
Vibration that travels via pressure waves in matter
identify different pitches for the same sound, based on their personal experience of particular sound patterns. Selection of a particular pitch is determined
Sound
Book by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle
The Sound Pattern of English (frequently referred to as SPE) is a 1968 work on phonology by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle. In spite of its title, it presents
The_Sound_Pattern_of_English
Regularity in sensory qualia or abstract ideas
considered a pattern. Mathematics can be taught as a collection of patterns. Gravity is a source of ubiquitous scientific patterns or patterns of observation
Pattern
1993 studio album by Death
Individual Thought Patterns lifts metal as an art form to a higher level. The album proves you can, without tuning your guitars extra low, sound heavy and melodic
Individual_Thought_Patterns
1963 studio album by Rod Levitt Orchestra
The Dynamic Sound Patterns (subtitled of the Rod Levitt Orchestra) is the debut album led by American jazz trombonist Rod Levitt which was recorded in
The_Dynamic_Sound_Patterns
Scientific study of language
meaning "cat" is represented worldwide with a wide variety of different sound patterns (in oral languages), movements of the hands and face (in sign languages)
Linguistics
Study of the interaction between morphology and phonology
offering insights into the dynamic interactions between word formation and sound patterns. It continues to evolve as a field, integrating innovative approaches
Morphophonology
Constructed human language based on predicate logic
algorithmically by searching for sound patterns in words with similar meanings in world languages and by weighting those sound patterns by the number of speakers
Lojban
2024 studio album by Laura Marling
It was supported by three singles: "Patterns", "No One's Gonna Love You Like I Can" and "Child of Mine". Patterns in Repeat was written after the birth
Patterns_in_Repeat
recurrent synchronic sound patterns, if not inherited from the mother tongue, are the result of recurrent sound changes, while rare patterns are the product
Evolutionary_phonology
Language produced with articulated sounds
distinct speech patterns, called phonemes, to distinguish and select words from a shared vocabulary. In oral languages, phonemes are sound patterns like vowels
Spoken_language
White noise sound generating device
temporary suppression of tinnitus in response to particular sound patterns. The mechanism of sound masking can be explained by analogy with light. In a dark
Tinnitus_masker
Phonology of the English language
Henry (2000), The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics, Pearson, ISBN 978-1-31787776-9 Sapir, Edward (1925), "Sound patterns in language", Language
English_phonology
Music technique
and arrangement of sound particles from a sample or the creation and exact placement of each particle to create complex sound patterns or singular particles
Sound_collage
1996 book
Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson which documents a global survey of the sound patterns of natural languages. Drawing from the authors' own fieldwork and experiments
The Sounds of the World's Languages
The_Sounds_of_the_World's_Languages
that have several types of contrasting sounds, patterns, or meanings. Each student must then figure out the patterns that exist within the stack, and sort
Word_sort
Modern writing system of 33 letters
Russian Language]. Vol. 2. Moscow: Прогресс. Halle, Morris (1959), Sound Pattern of Russian, MIT Press Ivan G. Iliev. "Kurze Geschichte des kyrillischen
Russian_alphabet
Brief sound used to convey information
are generally synthesized tones or sound patterns. The similar term auditory icon refers to recorded everyday sounds that serve the same purpose. Assistive
Earcon
Chinantecan language of Mexico
Juliette Blevins (2004). Evolutionary Phonology: The Emergence of Sound Patterns. Cambridge University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-521-80428-8. Merrifield
Palantla_Chinantec
American radio broadcaster and writer
a Research and Development division to study the effects of various sound patterns on human consciousness, including the sleep state. Monroe was especially
Robert_Monroe
Traditional dialect of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, US
here including Rhode Island English, is classically associated with sound patterns such as: non-rhoticity, or dropping r when not before a vowel; both
Eastern_New_England_English
Automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data
Pattern recognition is the task of assigning a class to an observation based on patterns extracted from data. While similar, pattern recognition (PR) is
Pattern_recognition
Concept in semiotics
When analysed in isolation, the sound-pattern or concept are pure differences, emerging from series of sound-patterns or concepts that they themselves
Value_(semiotics)
Basic unit of phonology
(1933). Language. Henry Holt. Harris 1951, p. 5. Sapir, Edward (1925). "Sound patterns in language". Language. 1 (37): 37–51. doi:10.2307/409004. JSTOR 409004
Phoneme
Cognitive process
seriation occur through encoding visual patterns, while music and language recognition use the encoding of auditory patterns. Template matching theory describes
Pattern recognition (psychology)
Pattern_recognition_(psychology)
Device that converts sound into an electrical signal
directionality or polar pattern indicates how sensitive it is to sounds arriving at different angles about its central axis. The polar patterns illustrated above
Microphone
2008 studio album by Miss Construction
Construction. The album begins with a punchy introduction featuring edgy sound patterns and an upbeat tempo. Immediately following the intro is the catchy "Miss
Kunstprodukt
Name list
his novel The Lord of the Rings, and modelled on the etymology and sound patterns of Welsh. The origins of Anwen are somewhat unclear, though the -wen
Anwen
New England English in Vermont, Connecticut, W. Massachusetts and Hudson Valley, New York
classification. Sound patterns historically associated with Western New England English include the features of rhoticity (full pronunciation of all r sounds), the
Western_New_England_English
8-bit microprocessor
which the programmer can send data directly to the sound mixer, allowing more complex sound patterns to be generated, such as speech. Inevitably, this
Hudson_Soft_HuC6280
Drum machine
faulty transistors to create the 808's distinctive sizzling sound. Various patterns Various patterns played by a TR-808 Accent trigger A recording of the TR-808
Roland_TR-808
American linguist (born 1960)
similarity of sound patterns by examining the regular processes of sound change. This approach argues that many common sound patterns in contemporary
Juliette_Blevins
Sundanese poem
meaning is indicated by structural correspondences of sound and patterns. If the sound patterns of the cangkang and the eusi are parallel, the sisindiran
Sisindiran
Given name
and Nevae. Variants have also been influenced by current fashionable sound patterns for American names. Nevaeh (wrestler), stage name of Beth Crist (born
Nevaeh
Creation of visible patterns on a vibrated plate
is contained. The sound wave, therefore, does not influence at all the shape of the vibrating body or the shape of the nodal patterns. The only thing that
Cymatics
Concept in musical composition
Other composers and works include Barbara Kolb, Pauline Oliveros' Sound Patterns for chorus (1961), Norma Beecroft's From Dreams of Brass for chorus
Sound_mass
Transitional phoneme produced like a vowel but used like a syllable boundary
James, "The story of [w]: An exercise in the phonetic explanation for sound patterns", in Whistler, Kenneth; Chiarelloet, Chris; van Vahn, Robert Jr. (eds
Semivowel
Instinctive animal behavior
identified six characteristics of fixed action patterns. These characteristics state that fixed action patterns are stereotyped, complex, species-characteristic
Fixed_action_pattern
Interference pattern
patterns. Line moiré is the case when the superposed patterns comprise straight or curved lines. When moving the layer patterns, the moiré patterns transform
Moiré_pattern
Common children's chant
2016-08-29. Tsur, Reuven (1992). What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive?: The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception. Sound & Meaning: The Roman Jakobson Series in
Nyah_nyah_nyah_nyah_nyah_nyah
Afro-Asiatic dialect continuum
Berber languages, Arabic exerts a large influence, especially on the sound patterns of the languages. Most Northern Berber languages have adopted the pharnygeal
Northern_Berber_languages
Rhythmic pattern of striking a hand-held bell or other instrument
band music, bell patterns are also played on the metal shell of the timbales, and drum kit cymbals. Gerhard Kubik notes that key patterns are not universally
Bell_pattern
Patterns in both time and space
Spatiotemporal patterns are patterns that occur in a wide range of natural phenoma and are characterized by a spatial and temporal patterning. The general
Spatiotemporal_pattern
Categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds
rare sound perceptions. The brain is remembering and ranking the sound patterns that usually enters the ears, and if an unusual (rare occurring) sound is
Consonance_and_dissonance
Aspect of music
"The measured flow of words or phrases in verse, forming various patterns of sound as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed
Rhythm
False perceptions of a real sound or outside stimulus
illusions, particularly of music and of speech, result from hearing sound patterns that are highly probable, even though they are heard incorrectly. This
Auditory_illusion
Sounds spelled with the digraph ⟨th⟩
ISBN 978-0-415-50649-6. Shockey, Linda (2003). "2.5.1 ð-reduction". Sound Patterns of Spoken English. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 43–44. ISBN 9780470758243
Pronunciation_of_English_⟨th⟩
Form of literature
often rely on rhythmic metre: patterns of syllable stress or syllable (or mora) weight. They may also use repeating patterns of phonemes, phoneme groups
Poetry
Latin letter R with caron
Bořislavka Prague Metro station Petřiny Prague Metro station Ŕ Rz (digraph) "Sound Patterns of Czech". Institute of Phonetics - Charles University. Retrieved 21
Ř
Basic unit distinguishing one sound from another in a language
is the most basic unit of phonological structure that distinguishes one sound from another within a language. For example, the feature [+voice] distinguishes
Distinctive_feature
Early talking device
machine converts pictures of the acoustic patterns of speech in the form of a spectrogram back into sound. Using this device, Alvin Liberman, Frank Cooper
Pattern_playback
Name list
surname and place name Brinley, meaning “burned clearing.” The name's sound pattern and names ending in -lee are currently fashionable in the United States
Brynlee_(given_name)
Steps of using content based instruction for second language learners
of grammar-translation, audio-lingual methodology, and vocabulary or sound patterns in dialog form. Recently, content is interpreted as the use of subject
Content-based_instruction
American drummer
a normal drum kit. He uses his foot to lift the bucket changing the sound patterns. He has appeared in commercials, Mariah Carey's "Someday" video, Bring
Larry_Wright_(street_drummer)
Test signal in television broadcasting
2022-08-09. "Netflix Test Patterns". forum.xda-developers.com. 20 July 2018. [user-generated source] "NETFLIX is offering Test Patterns to configure your HDR
Test_card
Canadian linguist
contributed to work comparing the range of sound patterns acquired by humans with the set sound patterns acquired by zebra finches. Goad was an invited
Heather_Goad
Acquisition of language skills during childhood
distinguish sounds that occur in stressed vs. unstressed syllables. This means that at 6 months infants have some knowledge of the stress patterns in the speech
Phonological_development
Historic vowel shift
sound change remained in the language and is still a mostly-productive process in Modern English, detailed in Chomsky and Halle's The Sound Pattern of
Trisyllabic_laxing
Awareness of the sound structure of words
Recollection of sounds and sound patterns Sequencing: Identify order of what was heard Figure-ground: Isolate one sound from background of other sounds Perception:
Phonological_awareness
Standard accent for British English
doi:10.1017/S0025100307003131, S2CID 143444452 Shockey, Linda (2003), Sound Patterns of Spoken English, Blackwell Trudgill, Peter (1999), The Dialects of
Received_Pronunciation
Name list
Wales since 2018. Elaborations of the name, many influenced by popular sound patterns and other names such as Amber and Kimberly, are also well used in the
Ember_(given_name)
Object with no referenced value or with defined neutral ("null") behavior
Refactoring To Patterns as the Insert Null Object refactoring. Chapter 17 of Robert Cecil Martin's Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns and Practices
Null_object_pattern
American death metal band
their sound with the band's fourth album Human, evolving even more with their next releases, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic, and The Sound of Perseverance
Death_(metal_band)
Omission of sounds in words or phrases
Routledge. p. 314. ISBN 978-1-4441-8309-2. Shockey, Linda (2003). Sound Patterns of Spoken English. Blackwell. pp. 14–29. ISBN 0-631-23080-7. McMahon
Elision
American marine biologist
Mercado, E. III, Herman, L. M., Pack, A. A. (2003). Stereotypical sound patterns in humpback whale songs: usage and function. Aquatic Mammals, 29, 37-52
Louis_Herman
British and American composer (1934–2026)
for trombone, string quartet and female mime Sound Patterns 1 (1967), for voices & hands Sound Patterns 2 (1967), for voices, percussion and miscellaneous
Bernard_Rands
Album by Ken Nordine
Hamilton as "Forest Horn" – drums, bongos, timpani, gong Jim Cunningham – sound patterns Edwards, D. and Callahan, M. Dot Album Discography Part 2: LPs 3000-3250/25000-25250
Word_Jazz
Underwater sound detected in 1997 from a non-tectonic cryoseism (ice quake)
alteration of waveforms from a detected sound "can also be caused by so-called angular frequency dependent radiation patterns associated with antisymmetric mode
Bloop
Electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds
percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns. Drum machines may imitate drum kits or other percussion instruments, or produce unique sounds, such as synthesized
Drum_machine
View of linguistics
impactful 1925 paper "Sound Patterns in Language" Edward Sapir independently arrived at the modern conception of phonemes not as speech sounds but as abstract
Structural_linguistics
1952 modernist composition by John Cage
anathema to the traditional view of harmony in music, exploiting random sound patterns 'noise' in the process of making music—the "detritus of the music process"
4′33″
Species of bird
The broad-tailed hummingbird produces several different sound patterns. This bird's call sounds like a sharp "cheet", which is repeated "cheet cheet cheet
Broad-tailed_hummingbird
Linguistic feature arising through language contact rather than common descent
Historical Study. India: Allied Publishers. Blevins, Juliette. (2017). Areal sound patterns: From perceptual magnets to stone soup. In R. Hickey (Ed.), The Cambridge
Areal_feature
British voice teacher, therapist, and author (born 1947)
contemplating the patterns in water, she noticed that when flow encounters resistance, first it rotates, then these rotary patterns become individual
Jill_Purce
Concept in linguistics
to the actual sound they articulate when they speak. In general, phonological rules start with the underlying representation of a sound (the phoneme that
Phonological_rule
1964 musical composition by Terry Riley
same pace. Patterns: The 53 patterns are to be played in order. Repetitions: Individual players determine how often to repeat any pattern. Transposition:
In_C
Production of a sound while the velum is lowered
Blevins, Juliette (2004). Evolutionary Phonology: The Emergence of Sound Patterns. Cambridge University Press. p. 203. ISBN 9780521804288. Ladefoged,
Nasalization
Soundscape of a given location or space
will further distort these already faint sounds, often beyond recognition, by introducing complex patterns of peaks and nulls in their frequency spectrum
Ambience_(sound_recording)
1966 studio album by the Beach Boys
Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on May 16, 1966, by Capitol Records. It was produced, arranged
Pet_Sounds
Disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds
Misophonia (or selective sound sensitivity syndrome) is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or their associated stimuli, or cues. These
Misophonia
2024 studio album by Kelsea Ballerini
Rodeo". The deluxe edition of Patterns was released on March 7, 2025. Ballerini opted for an all-women approach to Patterns, as she co-wrote and co-produced
Patterns (Kelsea Ballerini album)
Patterns_(Kelsea_Ballerini_album)
1819 poem by John Keats
with a "long" vowel. These are not the only combination patterns present, and there are patterns of two "short" vowels followed by a "long" vowel in other
Ode_to_a_Nightingale
State of standing out as unusual
generative linguistic theory through Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle's The Sound Pattern of English. For Chomsky and Halle, phonological features went beyond
Markedness
German physicist, mathematician and musician
rigid surface, known as Chladni figures or Chladni patterns due to the various shapes or patterns created by various modes. When resonating, a plate or
Ernst_Chladni
1995 studio album by Death
material nor as outwardly progressive [as Human or Individual Thought Patterns]." He also likened Schuldiner's vocals at certain parts on the album to
Symbolic_(Death_album)
Form of Chinese qigong
Healing Sounds or Liù Zì Jué (六字訣) is one of the common forms of Chinese qigong, and involves the coordination of movement and breathing patterns with specific
Liu_Zi_Jue
West Slavic language
Nouns of different genders follow different declension patterns. Examples of declension patterns for noun phrases of various genders follow: Nouns are
Czech_language
Sounds produced by whales
evolves, it appears that old patterns are not revisited. An analysis of 19 years of whale songs found that while general patterns in song could be spotted
Whale_vocalization
Anthropological view
organization of sound patterns, but an effect of the fact that these languages organized sounds differently from English. The languages grouped sounds that were
Cultural_relativism
Type of secondary articular language
[citation needed] Labio-palatal approximant Maddieson, Ian (1984). Patterns of Sounds. Cambridge Studies in Speech Science and Communication. Cambridge
Labio-palatalization
Norms for writing the English language
following table shows for each sound the various spelling patterns used to denote it, starting with the prototypical pattern(s) followed by others in alphabetical
English_orthography
1916 book on linguistics
sound pattern (referred to by Saussure as a 'signal'), and the signified, or concept (referred to by Saussure as 'signification'). The sound pattern is
Course_in_General_Linguistics
Latin letter E with acute accent
unusual syllable. Languages may use é to indicate a certain sound (French), stress pattern (Spanish), length (Czech) or tone (Vietnamese, Chinese), as
É
1997 studio album by Swing Out Sister
Swing Out Sister - Shapes and Patterns (1997) Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 4, 2024. "Shapes and Patterns - Swing Out Sister - Songs, Reviews
Shapes_and_Patterns
American linguist and anthropologist (1884–1939)
the careful attention to the intuition of native speakers regarding sound patterns that later would become the basis for Sapir's formulation of the phoneme
Edward_Sapir
Animal vocalization
and environment, with many patterns in sound production. Nuwer, Rachel (December 3, 2013). "Why Koalas' Mating Bellows Sound More Like a Choking Tiger
Bellow_(sound)
Equipment for preventing soot build-up in chimneys
for a few seconds at intervals of between 3 and 10 minutes. This ‘sounding’ pattern is normally controlled via the plant’s PLC. However, it may also be
Sonic_soot_blowers
Hypothesis of spoken word identification
gestures with which they are pronounced rather than by identifying the sound patterns that speech generates. It originally claimed that speech perception
Motor theory of speech perception
Motor_theory_of_speech_perception
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Bond
Girl/Female
Tamil
Sound
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Telugu
Sound
Girl/Female
Hindu
Sound
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Sound
Girl/Female
Indian
Sound
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Sound
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : nickname for a plump person, from Middle English, Old French rond, rund ‘fat’, ‘round’ (Latin rotundus).
Boy/Male
Tamil
Sound
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Sound
Surname or Lastname
Swedish and Danish
Swedish and Danish : from sund ‘strait’, ‘sound’, probably an arbitrarily adopted or ornamental surname, but possibly a topographic name adopted by someone who lived near the shore by a strait.Norwegian : habitational name from any of twenty-five or more farmsteads, mainly in Nordland, so named from Old Norse sund ‘strait’, ‘sound’.English : nickname for a healthy or prosperous man, from Middle English sund, sound ‘sound’, ‘healthy’.English : topographic name from Middle English sund, sound ‘water’, ‘strait’, ‘sound’.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Australian, French, Muslim
Well-being
Girl/Female
Tamil
Sound
Surname or Lastname
English
English : presumably a variant of Mount.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Sound
Boy/Male
Hindu
Sound
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English p(o)und ‘enclosure (especially for confining animals)’; a topographic name for someone who lived near an enclosure in which animals were kept, or a metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for rounding up stray animals and placing them in a pound.Probably a translation of German Pfund or the North German cognate Pund.
Girl/Female
Indian
Sound
Girl/Female
German, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
Sound
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil
Sound Stages; Sound
SOUND PATTERNS
SOUND PATTERNS
Male
Russian
(Ðнтон) Russian form of Greek Antonios, possibly ANTON means "invaluable." Compare with other forms of Anton.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Happy, Joyous
Boy/Male
English
Steward.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Morey 2.French : topographic name from French mûrier ‘mulberry tree’, or a habitational name from Mouriez in Pas-de-Calais, or from Mourier in Villers-St-Paul, Oise.French : possibly a short form of Amory, from the Germanic personal name Amalric.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Guiding to the Right; Director; Guide
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Victorious Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
Indian, Modern
Beautiful
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Goddess of Mind; Desire
Surname or Lastname
English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : habitational name from the region of Powis in North Wales.
Surname or Lastname
English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : variant of Irish Madden.
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v. t.
To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat; to sound a parley.
v. t. & i.
To sound.
superl.
Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective; as, a sound title to land.
pl.
of Pound
v. t.
To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit.
v. t.
To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound; to examine with a sound; also, to examine by auscultation or percussion; as, to sound a patient.
superl.
Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; -- said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.
superl.
Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship.
v. i.
To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
n.
The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound.
superl.
Free from error; correct; right; honest; true; faithful; orthodox; -- said of persons; as, a sound lawyer; a sound thinker.
superl.
Undisturbed; deep; profound; as, sound sleep.
superl.
Founded in truth or right; supported by justice; not to be overthrown on refuted; not fallacious; as, sound argument or reasoning; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles.
v. t. & i.
To sound again or anew.
n. & v.
Sound.
superl.
heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating.
v. t.
To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn.
v. t.
To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument.
n.
The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound.
v. t.
To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.