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  2. Phonophobia - Wikipedia

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    When operating a device such as a home theater system, computer, television, or CD player, they may wish to have the volume turned down all the way before doing anything that would cause the speakers to emit sound, so that once the command to produce sound is given, the user can raise the volume of the speakers to a comfortable listening level.

  3. Semantic satiation - Wikipedia

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    Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, [1] who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. Extended inspection or analysis (staring at the word or phrase for a long time) in place of repetition also produces the same effect.

  4. Anomic aphasia - Wikipedia

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    Anomic aphasia, also known as dysnomia, nominal aphasia, and amnesic aphasia, is a mild, fluent type of aphasia where individuals have word retrieval failures and cannot express the words they want to say (particularly nouns and verbs). [1]

  5. Aphonia - Wikipedia

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    Aphonia is defined as the inability to produce voiced sound. [1] This may result from damage, such as surgery (e.g., thyroidectomy) or a tumor., [2] or can be a result of psychological means. Aphonia means "no sound.” In other words, a person with this disorder has lost their voice and is unable to communicate vocally. [3]

  6. Musical anhedonia - Wikipedia

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    Research has shown that people with this condition have reduced functional connectivity between the cortical regions responsible for processing sound and the subcortical regions related to reward. [3] Musical anhedonia is not associated with brain damage and affects between 3 and 5 percent of the general population.

  7. Foreign accent syndrome - Wikipedia

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    To the untrained ear, those with the syndrome sound as though they speak their native languages with a foreign accent; for example, an American native speaker of American English might sound as though they spoke with a south-eastern British English accent or a native English speaker from Britain might speak with a New York accent. Contrary to ...

  8. Now Hear This: March 2025 - AOL

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    1. IZO. Sounds like: Erykah-esque neo-soul caught up in the African futurism of the Burna Boy and Tems era. Describe your approach to music and how you would explain your sound to others. I try to ...

  9. Pseudoword - Wikipedia

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    A logatome or nonsense syllable is a short pseudoword consisting most of the time of just one syllable which has no meaning of its own. Examples of English logatomes are the nonsense words snarp or bluck. Like other pseudowords, logatomes obey all the phonotactic rules of a specific language. Logatomes are used in particular in acoustic ...