• Ballistic syllables are a phonemic distinction in Otomanguean languages: Chinantec and Amuzgo. They have been described as characterized with increased...
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    Chinantec (Latani) is the most divergent. Chinantecan languages have ballistic syllables, apparently a kind of phonation. All Chinantec languages are tonal...
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  • nature that has been suggested to be "ballisticity". However, it lacks the characteristics of ballistic syllables in other Otomanguean languages. The only...
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    descriptions claim that Amuzgo also has ballistic syllables, a possible type of supra-glottal phonation. Ballistic syllables are also a feature of the phonology...
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    types. There is some evidence that there are also ballistic syllables contrasting with non-ballistic ones. Chiquihuitlán Mazatec on the other hand is described...
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  • system assists military communications by providing short, one- or two-syllable names, as alternatives to the precise proper names, which may be easily...
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  • modal register, the falsetto register, and the whistle register. Ballistic syllables Breathy voice Creaky voice Faucalized voice Harsh voice List of language...
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  • upsets in Scottish football, led to the newspaper headline "Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious" by The Sun. The Guardian rated it as number 5 in...
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  • consonants are more prone to be part of consonant clusters and of the syllable nucleus. Their third formants are generally non-predictable based on the...
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  • sharp falling pitch but not the other correlates of Chinantecan ballistic syllables. There are also a number of phonemic (as opposed to just phonetic)...
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  • Ozumacín Chinantec has nine tones. They are written as follows: Ballistic syllables are marked by a steep drop in pitch. The following diacritics are...
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  • in any syllable, but those ending in rounded vowels usually occur only in initial syllables, and rising diphthongs are confined to that syllable. It is...
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    system for prosody. He described meters in the form of short and long syllables. 273 BCE Ashoka the Great regarded as the greatest ancient Indian emperor...
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  • English, the first syllable of the name of the binary-multiple prefix should be pronounced in the same way as the first syllable of the name of the corresponding...
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    three (3) syllables, with the final "s" silent, the "a" in each syllable with the Italian sound, and the accent on the first and last syllables. The pronunciation...
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  • with different data word lengths or different address widths or both. Syllable – A platform-specific data size used for some historical digital hardware...
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  • the tongue that is required for clicks to combine with vowels and form syllables. Anatomically, clicks are obstruents articulated with two closures (points...
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  • and Aerospace. Rifle-rated ballistic helmet, MKU has developed what it bills as "a first-of-its-kind rifle-rated ballistic helmet", MKU states that the...
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  • Si-hyuk are relatives of the Bang family. Although they use the same second syllable 'Hyuk', it is known that they are not cousins.) Kwon, Il-woon (November...
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    (8-, 11- and 12-syllable lines). The Classical Sanskrit deploys both linear and non-linear metres, many of which are based on syllables and others based...
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  • by NATO – has nothing to do with it. Jet-powered aircraft received two-syllable names like Foxbat, while propeller aircraft were designated with short...
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    repelled the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and bringing Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles to Cuba, which preceded, and eventually precipitated, the 1962...
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    which the project was named is commonly pronounced /ˈdʒɛmɪnaɪ/, the last syllable rhyming with eye. However, staff of the Manned Spacecraft Center, including...
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    exhibits poetic effects through isometry (alternation and homology of syllable count in the different word sequences) and homoeoteleuton (Cabirotade and...
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    programs in fear of their possible connection to clandestine military ballistic missile programs, which Korea many times insisted did not violate the...
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    singer-turned-pop star packs a series of different notes into the single syllable", stated Everitt. "The technique is repeated throughout the song, most...
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    sol-fa) syllable. This represents a practical method for teaching sight-singing (singing music from written notation). Guido di Arezzo chose the syllables from...
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  • ' pulsating along to the twitch of 'Gimme More' and going absolutely ballistic for the brief, two-verse rendition of '...Baby One More Time.'" Craig...
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    text (the book of Marco Polo by Pauthier, Paris 1865, 2 volumes): not a syllable about eyeglasses in China is found therein. Our highly esteemed Sinologist...
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    programmers to organize a spreadsheet of lyric snippets by beats per minute, syllable, and key to call from whenever stuck. "Instead of trying to force myself...
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