complex tone

When two simple tones are put together they create a complex tone.

It also has a more complex tone sandhi than found in modern Chinese.

It is also noted for extremely complex tone sandhi systems.

However, other more complex tones are also used.

We will not consider any more complex tones, since these are not often encountered and are of little importance.

Some dialects have a complex tone splittings, where the terms dark and light are insufficient to cover the possibilities.

A partial is any of the sine waves by which a complex tone is described.

There are two types of tones: pure tones and complex tones.

Acoma Keres has a relatively complex tone system.

Larger than a mandolin, it contains ten strings which generate complex tones and multiple harmonic series.

Some varieties of Mixtec display complex tone sandhi.

He dabbled with several instruments before finally settling on the soothing but complex tones of the nine-string baliset.

On-line sound examples comparing pure and complex tones and complexes with missing fundamentals can be found here.

Jin employs extremely complex tone sandhi, or tone changes that occur when words are put together into phrases.

Dutch bells have a richer, more complex tone color than American handbells common in this country - more like a tower carillon.

The pitch of complex tones can be ambiguous, meaning that two or more different pitches can be perceived, depending upon the observer.

In the complex tones of Bateman's art - at once exultant and elegiac - Matthiessen's writing finds its perfect match.

When such complex tones are played in semitone steps the listener perceives a scale that appears to ascend endlessly in pitch.

The right auditory cortex is primarily used in distinguishing between different harmonics, which are simple pure tones that combine to create complex tones.

Amongst the various views on how to interpret this situation, the most promising one may be that the words displaying these complex tones have an extra mora.

The saxophone's resonator is conical, which allows the even-numbered harmonics to sound more strongly and thus produces a more complex tone.

The Kru languages are known for some of the most complex tone systems in Africa, rivaled perhaps only by the Omotic languages.

It was originally designed to mimic the complex tones and constantly shifting sources of sound emanating from a large group of ranks in a pipe organ.

Roger Shepard achieved this ambiguity of height by creating banks of complex tones, with each tone composed only of components that stood in octave relationship.

The roughness of two simultaneous harmonic complex tones depends on the amplitudes of the harmonics and the interval between the tones.