tone is functionally as resistance to passive movement. it is separated into postural tone and phasic tone. phasic tone is the result of rapid stretching of a tendon and the muscle spindle, however postural tone is the result of a steady, restrained strech on muscles. hypottonia is a decreased resistance to passive movement. the term floppy is frequently used to describe hypotonic children. in ...

The goal of our study is twofold. First, the results of two approaches in a tone annotation task are presented: a manual approach provided by the system MISTRAL+ and an automatic approach provided by the system PROSOTRAN. Second, an attempt is made here to determine the number and the patterns of the Mo Piu language tones with respect to the pitch slope and the tone level. It is found that both...

Falsetto phonation was applied to produce 上 声 Shangsheng/Rising Tone in the early stage of Chinese tonal development (ca. 400-700 AD) and this phonation type is still in use in the tonal systems of several major Chinese dialect-groups now. In Hubei湖北 province, falsetto tones are found in three cities, Songzi松滋, Jingmen荆门 and Jianli监利. In the tonal systems of these three dialects, the tone value...

Abstract Vocal fry is a phonation, or voicing, in which an individual drops their voice below its natural register and consequently emits low, growly, creaky tone of voice. Media outlets have widely acknowledged it as generational vocal style characteristic millennial women. Critics often claim that exclusively female pattern, some say the voicing so distracting they cannot understand what bein...

A large register set can be exploited by keeping variables and constants in registers instead of in memory. Hardware register windows and compiletime or link-time global register allocation are ways to do this. A measure of the effectiveness of any of these register management schemes is how thoroughly they manage to remove loads and stores. This measure also must count extra loads and stores t...

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