adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an acoustic/an electric/a classical guitar
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
guitar
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Electric bass, electric and acoustic guitars . b. Tibsheif, Derbyshire.
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Budd, who has been strumming his acoustic guitar through the Midwest, writes introspective songs with a witty, sincere touch.
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Buckingham used his Takamine for a lot of the acoustic parts, but various electrics and other acoustic guitars were also employed.
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His acoustic guitar work is considered the standard by which all other flamenco players are now measured.
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Or perhaps it was the combination of moon, surf, and acoustic guitars .
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National made these instruments specifically to be the loudest acoustic guitars in existence - and they succeeded.
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Their supporting act was a guy dressed in black playing acoustic guitar .
information
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The ability of speech recognition systems to discriminate words from acoustic information alone is not encouraging.
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We increased the acoustic information by incorporating lexical stress into the representation.
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Increasing the specificity of the acoustic information .
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The semantic constraint may take precedence over acoustic information . 4.2.2.2.
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And accordingly, listeners process acoustic information less carefully when dealing with predictable words.
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Furthermore, the same acoustic information can be perceived differently depending on its higher-level context.
input
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Moreover it may sometimes be the case that the acoustic input is simply insufficient to discriminate between hypotheses.
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The first covers transducers, horns or velocity transformers and acoustic input and amplitude, and mentions health and safety.
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The problem is not just one of poor acoustic input but also of ambiguous word boundaries.
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The representation must allow us to compute a link between descriptions of acoustic input and stored descriptions.
property
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Its unamplified acoustic properties are really quite surprising.
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They all share certain acoustic properties which, he thought, would make the call difficult to locate.
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The ceiling is closed up with varnished boards which renders the acoustic properties excellent.
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As in the case of any musical instrument, the actual form of each grotto directly influenced its individual acoustic properties .
quality
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The high acoustic quality of the recordings proved to be critical in such cases.
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Should it at times carry more weight than bottom-up acoustic quality ?
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Areas of poor acoustic quality but tightly constrained by local syntactic and semantic information would be identified through top-down prediction.
signal
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For speech recognition the principal operational difficulty to be faced is the interference to the acoustic signal from background noise.
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When they were built Dungeness was quiet enough not to interfere with acoustic signals .
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A further problem can be the microphone performance - different microphones can produce different acoustic signals which need to be standardised.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Deaf people get no acoustic feedback when they talk, so their speech is often impaired.
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Various pieces of recording equipment are used to produce interesting acoustic effects.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Budd, who has been strumming his acoustic guitar through the Midwest, writes introspective songs with a witty, sincere touch.
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It is known that there are few, if any, reliable acoustic cues to word boundaries.
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It is this industrial market that excites potential manufacturers of acoustic microscopes.
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Possible swap for interesting electric or acoustic .
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The insects that bats prey upon have a comparable battery of sophisticated electronic and acoustic gear.
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The noises you heard - the explosive noises - were the acoustic effects of a second Darkfall strike.
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The vibration takes the form of an acoustic wave travelling down the rod.
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Unfortunately, the beginnings of utterances appear to be particularly unconstrained by either the acoustic material or the linguistic interpretation.