11. Enrico & Stuart ( 1996 ) use for the vowels that occur in nonsense syllables in songs. 12. It was later determined that humans impose meaning even on nonsense syllables to make them more meaningful. 13. Or muttering feebly to himself in nonsense syllables when the world has become too much to bear. 14. He laughs with a deep bass guffaw and sings " One Little Drink ", using nonsense syllables . 15. The vocals are infectiously upbeat with wonderful harmonies and use of nonsense syllables , sounding like enthusiastic street-corner singing. 16. Nonsense syllables can vary in structure.17. The examiner proceeded by spelling a random three-letter nonsense syllable and then enunciating immediately afterwards a random three-digit number. 18. Nonsense syllables are combinations of letters that do not follow grammatical rules, and are meant to lack any meaning.19. Theories and research on memory dates back to Herman Ebbinghaus, in the 1960 s, who began studying nonsense syllables . 20. Villotte from the sixteenth-century are typically strophic dialect songs that frequently contain nonsense syllables and passages in triple time.