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Topic: Feature length

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Encyclopedia: Length (phonetics) In phonetics, length or quantity is a feature of sounds that are distinctively longer than other sounds. In non-linear phonology, the feature of length is often not a feature of a specific sound segment, but rather of the whole syllable. Also, tonal contour may reinforce the length, as in Estonian, where the over-long length is concomitant with a tonal variation resembling tonal stress marking. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Length-%28phonetics%29   (524 words)

Great Vowel Shift The GVS, then, eradicated from English all words in which a difference in vowel length alone functioned to indicate a morhphological relationship; the consequence seems to have been that there was no longer any reason to maintain vowel length as a distinctive feature in English. Certainly, it is clear that vowel length (again, in the sense of duration) is not a feature of the Modern English vowel system. The modern informal terms of "long vowels" and "short vowels" are thus a reflection of an earlier stage of the language where vowel length was a distinctive feature. asstudents.unco.edu /faculty/tbredehoft/UNCclasses/ENG419/GVS.html   (1727 words)

Use of Archaeological Methods in the Collection of Data Related to Alleged Sasquatch Activity If the feature are footprints, record the length, width, and depth of each print; entire length of trackway; distance between the heel of left foot to the heel of the next left foot (or right is two of those are present). Once a feature is located, it is important to record specific details on soil type, construction materials, construction methods, approximate age of feature, etc. Closely examine the feature for hairs, bone, teeth, etc. Any map, to be useful, requires a method of location and measuring (a datum and measurements), a method of orientation (a north arrow), a scale, a legend explaining symbols utilized and an identification of the subject matter(see Figures 1 and 2). www.bfro.net /ref/fieldres/archaeologicalmethods.asp   (1727 words)

Great Vowel Shift The modern informal terms of "long vowels" and "short vowels" are thus a reflection of an earlier stage of the language where vowel length was a distinctive feature. The GVS, then, eradicated from English all words in which a difference in vowel length alone functioned to indicate a morhphological relationship; the consequence seems to have been that there was no longer any reason to maintain vowel length as a distinctive feature in English. Indeed, we might guess that the earlier stage either had (a) just three vowels (spelled ‘i’ ‘e’ and ‘a’), or else (b) three close pairs of vowels, where each member of a pair was represented in spelling with the same vowel letter. asstudents.unco.edu /faculty/tbredehoft/UNCclasses/ENG419/GVS.html   (1727 words)

criteria.txt The product's key escrow feature shall allow for the recovery of multiple decryption keys during the period of authorized access without requiring repeated presentations of the access authorization to the key escrow agent(s). The product's key escrow cryptographic functions shall use an unclassified encryption algorithm with a key length not to exceed sixty-four (64) bits. The key(s) required to decrypt the product's key escrow cryptographic functions' ciphertext shall be accessible through a key escrow feature. csrc.nist.gov /keyrecovery/criteria.txt   (385 words)

Vowel length - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In Baltic-Finnic languages, such as Finnish, vowel length is sometimes better analyzed as a "diphthong" of two identical vowels, since the etymology and morphology is the same as for diphthongs, and not a feature of the vowel itself. In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived duration of a vowel sound. Vowel length can also be signified by a half-colon (a colon with only the top dot), meaning half-long, and a double colon, meaning twice as long as a regular vowel. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vowel_length   (1672 words)

Syllable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sometimes syllable length is also counted as a suprasegmental feature; for example, in most Germanic languages, long vowels may only exist with short consonants and vice versa. A heavy syllable is one with a branching rime or a branching nucleus. The syllable onset is the sound(s) occurring before the nucleus, and the syllable coda is the sound(s) occurring after the nucleus. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syllable   (1672 words)

Focal Length It is generally easier to use the Optical Zoom feature than focal length to specify your requirements. A lens' focal length determines the level of magnification of the image captured in a photograph. A lower focal length leads to images appearing smaller in a photograph which will include more area from the scene (a larger field of vision). www.logipick.com /~toPage-PageDefDvcFlen   (1672 words)

Gemination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Estonian has three phonemic lengths; however, the third length is a suprasegmental feature, which is as much tonal patterning as a length distinction. In other languages, such as Finnish or Japanese, consonant gemination and vowel length are independent of each other. In languages such as Swedish or Italian, consonant gemination and vowel length depend on each other. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gemination   (678 words)

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) FOREST - A variable-length field containing the name or names of the National Forest or National Grassland in which the feature is wholly or partially located. In the case of areal features, they represent the location of the approximate geographic center of the feature, whereas the primary coordinates of linear features represent the location of the mouth of the feature. The counties for linear features are ordered from the mouth to the source of the feature, whereas for areal features they are ordered from the center of the feature outward. geonames.usgs.gov /gnis_users_guide_descripdbs.html   (678 words)

roa-278-holt-3.doc For loss of vowel length distinctions, I suggested that this reinterpretation occurred by the elimination of a superfluous feature and that this was in accord with markedness tendencies, as well as the general drift in Indo-European (Lloyd, p. However, the confusion of certain long and short vowels and the eventual redundancy of duration in determining contrast led to the elimination of long vowels even before less sonorous geminate consonants were affected. This assimilation appears to have occurred before the loss of vowel length, and so before the rise of *C(. roa.rutgers.edu /files/278-0898/roa-278-holt-3.doc   (3348 words)

Suprasegmentals (from phonetics) --  Encyclopædia Britannica in phonetics, a speech feature such as stress, tone, or word juncture that accompanies or is added over consonants and vowels; these features are not limited to single sounds but often extend over syllables, words, or phrases. A phonetic analysis, for example, will describe how the position of the lips differs when producing the i and u sounds and how the t sound in tar differs from the t in star. During harvesting, the cane stalks are stripped of their leaves and trimmed for easier handling at the cane mill or sugar factory. www.britannica.com /eb/article-69026?tocId=69026   (812 words)

Chapter 3 Preprocessing Of The Speech Data If F feature vectors are required in the time aligned pattern vector then D is divided into F-1 segments of length L where Subsequent feature vectors for the warped pattern vector are chosen such that the nth feature vector is that feature vector from the input pattern vector B closest to the nth feature vector of the reference pattern vector. All pattern vectors are warped against a reference pattern vector of the same category which has the same number of feature vectors as there are frames in the input layer of the neural network. www.moonstar.com /~morticia/thesis/chapter3.html   (812 words)

Feature extraction The feature extraction, the first step of the image evaluation, is performed using standard operators known from image processing. Straight lines are found in two steps: first grey scale edges are found by using a gradient operator [3] and then straight lines which are longer than a threshold length are extracted from the edge image. The attributes of points are the position in the image, a small square grey value matrix with the point in the centre. www.gia.rwth-aachen.de /Forschung/Strassen/Wien/node3.html   (232 words)

Gabor Feature Extraction for Automatic Speech Recognition When incorporating new features into a system, especially if this results in a change to feature vector length, it may be necessary to re-tune acoustic model configuration parameters (such as the "Gaussian weight") in order to get best performance. It's possible that this was because the combination of PLP and HATS (or various other features; the baseline was complex) in the baseline system already covered a lot of the territory covered by Gabor feature extraction. Here is a discussion of how Gabor filter feature extraction relates to the TRAPS and HATS approaches. www.icsi.berkeley.edu /ftp/global/pub/speech/papers/icslp02-gabor   (943 words)

Monmouth Park Racetrack OCEANPORT, N.J. - Michael Gill's Noon Time Dancer gained control on the turn and raced to a two and a half-length victory in Friday's $37,000 allowance feature at Monmouth Park. Noon Time Dancer, trained by Mark Shuman and ridden by Jose Ferrer, stopped the timer in 1:40 2/5 for one mile over a track rated "good" and returned $12.60, $7.20 and $5.20 across the board. This was the second straight victory for Noon Time Dancer, a 3-year-old daughter of Afternoon Deelites who won a claiming sprint here last month. www.monmouthpark.com /news.asp?id=2840&print=Y   (943 words)

Review: Modern Cantonese Phonology Further details on duration measurements are given later in the chapter concerning whether or not vowel length should be treated as a contrastive feature in the dialect. Although most phonological studies have generally not treated vowel length as contrastive (except with respect to the low vowels, B&B (p.39) make use of duration measurements from Kao (1971) and Li (1985) to draw the conclusion that vowel duration should be considered a distinctive characteristic of the vowel system of Cantonese. The study does not purport to be based on any particular phonological theory, opting instead for a more general descriptive approach, and making use of phonetic details and acoustic research at various times as part of the study in determining phonological contrasts. people.cohums.ohio-state.edu /chan9/pubn/bauer-rev.htm   (3144 words)

* Dusted Features [ An Interview With Ada ] * The title of her first full-length Blondie speaks volumes; Ada is more than a divider at the local record store, or a file to be downloaded. * Dusted Features [ An Interview With Ada ] * She’s the chanteuse of Chez Areal, her vocals adding sex appeal and spice to a crowd content to let its computers pull the weight. www.dustedmagazine.com /features/314   (3144 words)

J404 Feature Writing, Carolyn Dale, Journalism, WWU Because of the length, complexity and variety of content, and because of their more entertaining nature, feature stories make use of techniques from fiction, news and essay writing. Feature stories need to develop their themes by placing them in context and addressing questions of depth and scope. Read chapter 6 in text on the newspaper feature story. hope.journ.wwu.edu /cdale/J404/404syll.html   (3144 words)

RMIT - Feature Writing This is a compulsory subject that seeks to prepare students for the disciplines of researching and writing feature articles for newspapers and magazines. Professional writers must write to length; marks will be deducted for work that varies by more than 10 per cent from any allocated word limit. Matthew Ricketson: "Writing Feature Stories", Allen and Unwin 2004. www.rmit.edu.au /browse?SIMID=COMM1052   (3144 words)

paper1.txt Graph spectral feature vectors are calculatedfirom the leading eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the unweighted graph adjacency matrix. The length of the vectors are determined by the number of leading eigenvalues, and the order of the components of the vectors is the order of the eigenvectors. From the first row to the fifth row, we show the experimental results obtained when the spectral feature vectors are constructed from ordered eigenvalues, the cluster volumes, the cluster perimeters, the cluster Cheeger constants, the shared perimeters and the cluster distances. www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~luo/paper1.txt   (3144 words)

Piece By Number's Design Notebook: Miniature Garden Maze Because the length of the main foundation piecing unit is nearly 3 times the size of the feature squares, foundation piecing the Garden Maze is best for feature squares measuring about 4" or less, unless you have access to printers/copiers that accept large paper sizes. The vertical lattice strip blocks are easily strip pieced and sewn to the "feature squares" (foundation pieced blocks, other applique or pieced blocks, or plain fabric squares). The main foundation pieced unit for Garden Maze is a skewed rectangle or diamond shape. www.piecebynumber.com /dn/dn2_gm.htm   (3144 words)

Feature Films The King and Me, by Legacy producer Stephen C. Schmidt, is a feature-length narrative film that humorously integrates modern religious perspectives with sightings of the King himself, Elvis Presley. Legacy Productions has produced in-house feature films and many features for others. Third party feature films photographed by Legacy personnel include: www.legacyproductions.com /FeatFilm.shtml   (3144 words)

Variable Space and Time (from relativity) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia This meant accepting the Lorentz contraction (corresponding to the Flatlander's contracted yardstick) except that Einstein removed the unprovable feature. Covers topics including twin trip, space-time travel, time dilation, and length contraction. Lorentz had suggested a contraction of matter, and this had not been found. www.britannica.com /ebi/article-207249   (3144 words)

EXPRESS-X Examples SCHEMA_VIEW prepare_ap224; -- This schema prepares an AP-224 file for translation -- to ISO 14649 by defining objects that encapsulate -- the feature information in an AP-224 file. -- VIEWs with the prefix 'ap224_' define features that -- are accessed in the ISO 14649 translation program. The last example was generic because it can be used to organize data in any AP-224 file for extraction by an ISO 14649 application. www.stepnc.com /library/express-x/map224.html   (3144 words)

HORSE RACING - CBS SportsLine.com NEW YORK -- Our Royal Dancer passed favorite Lavender Lass in midstretch on her way to a 1½-length victory in Thursday's $47,000 optional claiming feature for older fillies and mares at Aqueduct. The win was the third in four starts this year for Our Royal Dancer, a 4-year-old daughter of Roy. Our Royal Dancer carried 118 pounds and jockey Pablo Fragoso seven furlongs in 1:23 1/5 over the fast track to earn $28,200 for Morton Fink. www.sportsline.com /horseracing/story/7241782   (3144 words)

Animated Films According to the Academy's rules, an 'animated film' must be at least 70 minutes in length, have a significant amount of major animated characters, and be at least 75% animated. The second film from the same team was Robots (2005), a slapstick, science-fiction animated film about clunky, nuts-and-bolts androids featuring Robin Williams (his first voice in an animated feature since 1992) as the voice of Fender. Writer/director Kerry Conran's feature film debut, the retro-futuristic sci-fi adventure film set in the late-1930s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) was the first live-action studio release in which every scene was at least partly computer-generated - supplemented with human actors (including Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow). www.filmsite.org /animatedfilms6.html   (1328 words)

In Flanders Fields Museum This feature is augmented by a downloadable document of eight pages in length that describes the Museum. My personal preference is to limit the scrolling in website navigation and to have full printing capabilities. This seems to be a small sacrifice in lieu of Macromedia Flash delivery. www.publichistory.org /reviews/View_Review.asp?DBID=107   (1328 words)

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