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/tr?n?z??.?n/a change from one form or type to another, or the process by which ...See more attransition
(Definition oftransitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofformant transition
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.Changes in speaking rate alter phonetically relevant properties of the speech signal, including formant center frequencies andformanttransitiondurations.From theCambridge English CorpusThe end of theformanttransitionwas set at the end of the last glottal pulse that differed from the preceding ones in formant frequency.From theCambridge English CorpusThe longer theformanttransitionwas, the lower was the perceptual boundary between short and long vowels in steady state duration.From theCambridge English CorpusThe longformanttransitionmust be included as a part of the realisation of the postvocoid vowel.From theCambridge English CorpusNote that theformanttransitionwas generally longer than either steady state, except for the steady state of a long vowel.From theCambridge English CorpusStop consonants include, for example, a very briefduration noise burst or transient that is no longer than about 5 - 40 ms just prior to the onset of theformanttransition.From theCambridge English CorpusAgain, conjoined constraints would have to be proliferated to account for all of the acceptable trade-offs in the model of formant transitions.From theCambridge English CorpusArticulatory and consequent spectral variation in pre-aspiration should thus be largely parasitic on the surrounding vocalism, including the formant transitions into the following oral closure.From theCambridge English CorpusThe cues of the velar stop are, however, preserved in the formant transitions into the following bilabial nasal.From theCambridge English CorpusFormant transitions : teasing apart consonant and vowel contributions.From theCambridge English CorpusThis is true for all three speakers, although there is some speaker-specific and vowel-specific variation in details of the formant transitions.From theCambridge English CorpusThe phonetic decoder in our model, by contrast, takes as its input a continuous representation of formant transitions.From theCambridge English CorpusWe can also predict where, in the course of a preceding vowel, consonant-induced formant transitions should occur.From theCambridge English CorpusIt guarantees salient formant transitions into a following vowel.From theCambridge English CorpusOn the perceptual origin of loanword adaptations 155 acoustic signal is first of all mapped onto a phonetic surface form, based on a continuous, universal format of formant transitions.From theCambridge English CorpusSilverman's basic proposal (recall 2) is that the formant transitions from a consonant into a vowel provide the best cues to place, and glottalisation tends to obscure such cues.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.Want to learn more?Go to the definition oftransitionSee other collocations withtransition#https://dictionary.cambridge.org/example/english/formant-transition##
