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Showing 1 to 20 of 908 for “"vocal"”.
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Exposing the hidden vocal channel: Analysis of vocal expression
… explored perception and modeling of human vocal expression, and began by asking what people heard in expressive speech. To address this fundamental question, clips from Shakespearian soliloquy and from the Library of Congress Veterans Oral History Collection were presented to Mechanical …
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The evolutionary roots of vocal learning: Exploring vocal learning abilities in vocal non-learners in birds
Vocal learning is a complex behaviour that enables animals to imitate and learn sounds from their environment. Many aspects of this behaviour remain poorly understood, particularly how prevalent it is, how it evolved and whether it is a binary behaviour (present or absent) or expresses along a …
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STEPPING INTO THE WORLD OF THE VOCAL COACH: ASSESSING VOCAL COACHING NEEDS
… voices, but not much has been published about vocal coaching itself, apart from the definitive guide to Vocal Coaching Nan-Withers Wilson’s book Vocal Direction for the Theatre, and the highly informative publication How to Use a Vocal Coach: A Practical Guide for Directors prepared by Nancy …
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Emphasizing the Articulatory and Timbral Aspects of Vocal Production in Vocal Composition
… articulatory and timbral phenomena in vocal composition began about 1950. The first part of this paper examines the interest shown by contemporary composers, teachers of singing, and performers in articulatory and timbral phenomena, and discusses the impact of these interests on …
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Graduate Recital, Vocal Performance
… before the completion of my graduate degree in vocal performance, featured a wide variety of repertoire. As a new member of the tenor fach, finding music that is challenging and appropriate for my level of development was difficult. The recital featured works by Stefano Donaudy, Hugo Wolf, …
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Socially Motivated Vocal Learning
… of social conspecifics. This thesis studies vocal learning in two social species, humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) and an oscine songbird, the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Using both behavioral and neuroanatomical data, Chapter 2 of this thesis argues that both the evolution and the …
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Vocal rehabilitation after total laryngectomy.
Vocal rehabilitation after total laryngectomy.
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Vocal Roughness in Selected Pastors
… The purpose of this study was to delineate vocal roughness in a sample of pastors. Thirty-eight pastors from the Springfield, Missouri community filled out a voice questionnaire and were tape recorded sustaining the vowels / a, i, ae, ^ / and a test sentence, "Joe took father's shoe bench …
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Morphology of the Vocal Folds
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Semantic Scaling of Vocal Quality
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An analog VLSI vocal tract
… the first experimental integrated-circuit vocal tract by mapping fluid volume velocity to current, fluid pressure to voltage, and linear and nonlinear mechanical impedances to linear and nonlinear electrical impedances. The 275 jW analog vocal tract chip can be used with auditory processors …
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Vocal Minimalism: An analysis and pedagogical approach to minimalist vocal techniques in new works for choir
… to successfully and sustainably teach minimalist vocal techniques
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The effect of bilingualism on vocal parameters related to vocal fatigue among Spanish-English bilingual speakers
… be applied to future research investigating vocal production in bilingual speakers. Acoustic analyses were conducted on speech recordings from the Archive of L1 and L2 Scripted and Spontaneous Transcripts and Recordings (ALLSSTAR). The participants were 11 Spanish-English bilingual speakers …
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Vocal mimicry in the brown thornbill
… In this thesis I formally evaluated claims of vocal mimicry in the brown thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla) and tested if mimetic vocalisations function in preventing nest predation. Both male and female thornbills are capable of mimicking a range of different vocalisations, including heterospecific …
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Vocal mimicry in the brown thornbill
… In this thesis I formally evaluated claims of vocal mimicry in the brown thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla) and tested if mimetic vocalisations function in preventing nest predation. Both male and female thornbills are capable of mimicking a range of different vocalisations, including heterospecific …
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The vocal repertoire of Hyla crucifer
A new, tapered call was discovered in the Hyla crucifer repertoire with the aid of a digital processing oscilloscope. The attack transient was found to be a distinguishing characteristic between the newly discovered tapered call and other calls. Energy requirements for production of the tapered …
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