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sound shift

(Phonetics & Phonology) a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels. See also Great Vowel Shift

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He has become another Ryan Taylor, ready and willing to play anywhere, and in fairness put in a sound shift when brought on as the midfield holding player in the victory at Blackburn but, like Ryan when at left-back, the question fans keep asking is can Perch continue to do it week-in and week-out.

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He speculates whether this might show that the sound shift was either less fully evolved in the north or perhaps was only less recognized orthographically.

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Lennon stood down in the 65th minute after a sound shift and the home side continued to be devoid of any attacking flair.

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Half of the babies learned to discern the vowel change within 10 trials and almost always recognized the sound shift in further trials.

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The remainder of this paper is concerned with precisely this question, and specifically how internal and external forces have intersected in a sound shift that has occurred in the English of New Zealand.

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No-one considers how a small sound shift might have in itself summed up certain transactions between present and past, corset and no-corset; theft and redemption, arrival and departure.

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Trapped in that incredibly small area, the light and vibrations strongly influence each other: light generates sound and sound shifts the color of light, a process known as stimulated Brillouin scattering.

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Julie Graham and Brian Cox delivered sound shifts with generic procedural material, the latter positioned as the obvious red herring by the time the "Next time" teaser appeared.

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However, by using the laws for sound shifts, reconstruction is possible.

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Their sound shifts you back to the late 60s early 70s sound the likes of the Donovan and Electric Prunes.

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This sound shifts with the variations in the playback of each of the unsynced color loops and shares acoustic space with the whir of the film projectors, creating a pas de deux of machine- and information-age sonic materials, themselves set in tandem with the flickering pastel palette of Sharits's image tracks.