OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to investigate tone production performance of native Mandarin Chinese speaking children with cochlear implants and to evaluate the effects of age at implantation and duration of implant use on tone production in those children. METHODS Fourteen prelingually deaf children who had received cochlear implantation and 14 age-matched normal-hearing chi...

this paper intends to study attraction theory which it has been published in a book entitled new method of music performance principles. it should note that mentioned book has been selected as the best book in 21 festival for year book in islamic republic of iran. at first some these drawbacks will be considered regarding to scientific rules then we find that the frequency ratio of sounds in th...

Tone mapping is used to compress the dynamic range of image data without distortion. To HDR images and prevent halo artifacts, a tone method proposed based on least squares method. Our first uses weights for estimation illumination, detail layer obtained by Retinex model. Then, global function with parameter range, fitting histogram equalization. Finally, illumination are fused obtain LDR image...

Prosodic structure is often perceived as exhibiting regularities in the patterning of tone sequences or stressed syllables. Recently, prosodic regularities in the distal (non-local) context have been shown to influence the perceived prosodic constituency of syllables. Three experiments tested the nature of distal prosodic patterns influencing perceptions of prosodic structure, using eight-sylla...

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