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Because attention is on the screen, the audience attributes the sound's contribution to the image, so a sound layer can change how a shot reads without altering pixels. Example (inference): the same locked wide shot with a dry close room tone versus a cold reverberant hum reads as a different place. Failure modes: sound that contradicts the image's information (semantic clash) is read as an error, not a nuance. Limitations: secondary source; the 'six registers' is the page's summary of Chion. Version/date: as fetched.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Correction folded 2026-10-24 from C3-B733-07 (curator-reviewed discovery audit): Problem. C3-B722-02 states that sound contradicting the image's information (semantic clash) is read as an error, not a nuance. Conditions. sonicfield.org wiki page 'added value' (secondary summary of Chion). Correction. The page lists semantic added value as sound inflecting the meaning of what is shown and directing interpretation; it does not say contradictory sound is read as an error. That claim is the summary author's inference. Failure modes. Not stated by the source. Limitations. Secondary source. Version/date. As fetched.\n\nLimitations: Secondary lexicon summary; Chion primary not read; prompting advice is untested inference. 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