nonsense syllable in a sentence
Examples
- At the competition for lilting, a technique of singing nonsense syllables, similar to jazz scatting, a line of spectators stretched out the door.
- In S . E Asch from Swathmore College and S . M Ebenholtz's experiment, participants learned pairs of nonsense syllables by anticipation recall.
- Percussive nonsense syllables _ the tra-la-las that give the songs their name _ percolate through the group or burst out like centuries-old scat singing.
- To create the lyrics, Eno later played these backing tracks, singing nonsense syllables to himself, then forming them into actual words, phrases and meanings.
- As early as 1971, Jansen et al . found evidence that contradicted previous findings by demonstrating a context-dependent effect on memory for nonsense syllables.
- In contrast, singing pitches with nonsense syllables places less emphasis on the rhythm, while counting the rhythm in a spoken form completely ignores the pitches.
- There's drama and release in the songs as they move from confiding verses to grand choruses to proud pop nonsense syllables, made for singing along.
- However, with increasing use it became apparent that different nonsense syllables were learned at very different rates, even when they had the same superficial structure.
- Franti started rapping and repeating a phrase, and Pedrito, one of the group's singers, entered the fray; the two swapped nonsense syllables, but with rhythm.
- Regarding statistics, Rugg points out that text produced from the same set of initial nonsense syllables but using different table structures shows widely different statistical properties.