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Acoustic Phonetics and Speech Production, Exams of Health sciences

This document covers a wide range of topics related to acoustic phonetics and speech production, including the role of articulators, speech production models, measurement techniques, and speech perception. It provides a comprehensive overview of the complex mechanisms involved in speech, making it a valuable resource for students and researchers in the field.

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COMD 5070 - Final Exam Rated A+
a line spectrum is a _______ in time. - ANSWER-snapshot
a semitone is always 1/__th of an octave. - ANSWER-1/12th
as you lower tongue and jaw, you ______ F1 frequency. - ANSWER-increase
as you move tongue backward, (increase/decrease) F2 frequency. - ANSWER-
decrease
as you move tongue forward, (increase/decrease) F2 frequency. - ANSWER-increase
as you raise tongue and jaw, you ______ F1 frequency. - ANSWER-decrease
do we need language competence to perceive phonetic differences? - ANSWER-NO
during early childhood, auditory feedback is _______ for learning how to make certain
sounds but ________ later in life. - ANSWER-essential (early on)
not as necessary later in life (closed-loop feedback is inappropriate for speaking)
EMG intramusuclar electrodes are for what? - ANSWER-fine detail
EMG surface electrodes are for what? - ANSWER-overall activity measures of larger
muscles
Flow during oral consonants indicates _______. - ANSWER-leakage
for a voiced stop, how long is the stop gap? - ANSWER-short
hoarse voices have (high/low) perturbation. - ANSWER-higher
how can you estimate subglottal pressure? - ANSWER-produce voiceless bilabial
plosive (pah, pah, pah)
-this is when oral pressure equals subglottal pressure
how can you measure flow? - ANSWER-pneumotachograph
how can you vary the FILTER behavior? - ANSWER-tongue/jaw movement
how can you vary the SOURCE behavior?
-loudness
-pitch
-voice quality - ANSWER-loudness - more force from lungs
pitch - stretch vocal folds to increase tension
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a line spectrum is a _______ in time. - ANSWER-snapshot a semitone is always 1/__th of an octave. - ANSWER-1/12th as you lower tongue and jaw, you ______ F1 frequency. - ANSWER-increase as you move tongue backward, (increase/decrease) F2 frequency. - ANSWER- decrease as you move tongue forward, (increase/decrease) F2 frequency. - ANSWER-increase as you raise tongue and jaw, you ______ F1 frequency. - ANSWER-decrease do we need language competence to perceive phonetic differences? - ANSWER-NO during early childhood, auditory feedback is _______ for learning how to make certain sounds but ________ later in life. - ANSWER-essential (early on) not as necessary later in life (closed-loop feedback is inappropriate for speaking) EMG intramusuclar electrodes are for what? - ANSWER-fine detail EMG surface electrodes are for what? - ANSWER-overall activity measures of larger muscles Flow during oral consonants indicates _______. - ANSWER-leakage for a voiced stop, how long is the stop gap? - ANSWER-short hoarse voices have (high/low) perturbation. - ANSWER-higher how can you estimate subglottal pressure? - ANSWER-produce voiceless bilabial plosive (pah, pah, pah) -this is when oral pressure equals subglottal pressure how can you measure flow? - ANSWER-pneumotachograph how can you vary the FILTER behavior? - ANSWER-tongue/jaw movement how can you vary the SOURCE behavior? -loudness -pitch -voice quality - ANSWER-loudness - more force from lungs pitch - stretch vocal folds to increase tension

voice quality - breathy? adjust space between arytenoids how do semitones correlate to our pitch perception? - ANSWER-both systems are not linear -difference in fundamental frequencies between males and females will have a similar standard deviation in semitones how do we know a baby hears phonetic differences? - ANSWER-infant heart rate drops for novel stimuli how do we parse words from a stream of sounds? - ANSWER-some top-down processing is essential -reliance on linguistic knowledge (of person, topic, setting) to create expectations -clears ambiguities from early processing how do you calculate average air flow? - ANSWER-dividing volume used by time -for example, if 1 liter of air is used and phonation lasts for 5 seconds -average flow = 1/5 liters per second = 0.2 L/s how does categorical perception differ from continuous perception? - ANSWER-While both continuous and categorical perception have no right or wrong responses, they differ in that categorical perception represents a binary, one choice or another, whereas continuous perception offers a range of choices. In the loudness chart, two people can have drastically different perceptions of how loud a tone is. In the da/ta plot, there are only two choices, and most people's crossover points should lie within 20 ms of each other. how does electromagnetic articulography work? - ANSWER--uses several electromagnetic signals -each transmitter has its own frequency -wires to each sensor how does magnetic jaw tracking work? - ANSWER--single permanent magnet attached to teeth -headset detects magnet movements how does Ohm's law relate to the voice (equation)? - ANSWER-laryngeal airway resistance = subglottic pressure / air flow how does the tongue move during acoustically identified phoneme boundaries? - ANSWER-dynamically and constantly how is F0 affected by enthusiastic intonation? - ANSWER-higher average and maximum F how is phonetic memory acquired? - ANSWER-repeated exposure to sounds

what are some problems with non-speech oral motor exercises? - ANSWER--rationale behind these exercises - great ROM means better speech (analogy - you don't lift weights to be a better concert pianist) PROBLEM IS.... no evidence to prove it what are the limitations of the palatometer? - ANSWER--remember motor equivalence - different articulation patterns can produce the same sound -remember coarticulation -does not reveal tongue movements what are the places of articulation for a stop? - ANSWER-bilabial /p,b/ alveolar /t,d/ velar /k,g/ what are the three signal processing techniques that help summarize information? - ANSWER-1) rectification

  1. smoothing
  2. averaging what are the three uses of a palatometer? - ANSWER--display patterns of tongue contact -useful in assessing articulation problems -provides biofeedback during therapy what are the two main classes of linguistic prosody? - ANSWER-1) pitch-based -it's in the mail -it's in the mail?
  3. pause-based -a woman without her man is nothing. -a woman: without her, man is nothing. what are two direct ways to measure subglottal pressure? - ANSWER--tracheal puncture -esophageal pressure (swallow sensor) what do these signals reveal? - ANSWER-details of neural control what does a band pass filter do? - ANSWER-allows a band of frequencies through (mid) what does a band reject filter do? - ANSWER-holds back/attenuates a band of frequencies (allows high and low frequencies) what does a bite block tell us about speech? - ANSWER-a bite block changes the function of the jaw but the acoustic goal can still be achieved... just in a different way

what does a Fourier transform do? - ANSWER-creates a spectrum from the time domain waveform (deconstructs the waveform) what does a frequency domain display show? - ANSWER-a line spectrum shows the frequency components of a periodic sound what does a high pass filter do? - ANSWER-allows high frequencies through what does a low pass filter do? - ANSWER-allows low frequencies through what does a LPC spectrum reveal more of? - ANSWER-vocal tract FILTER what does a pattern playback device do? - ANSWER-creates sounds -draw patterns on a display -device converts contours into sounds -allows manipulation of isolated components what does a time domain display show? - ANSWER--a waveform represents sound directly -air pressure changes over time what does averaging do? - ANSWER-composite picture of activity of muscle what does high modulation/low perturbation sound like? - ANSWER-aka vocal vibratto -opera singer what does high perturbation/high modulation sound like? - ANSWER-old woman .... ahhhHHHhhHHhHhH what does it mean for science to be deterministic? - ANSWER-obeys physical laws what does it mean for science to be empirical? - ANSWER-based on data what does it mean for science to be parsimonious? - ANSWER-uses the simplest explanation possible what does it mean for science to be predictive? - ANSWER-if you do this.... then that will happen what does low modulation/high perturbation sound like? - ANSWER-rough but not wobbly.... sounds like Kermit what does rectification do? - ANSWER-all negative values made positive what does smoothing do? - ANSWER-low pass filter

-to the extreme left/right of a phoneme boundary what is affective prosody? - ANSWER-emotional prosody what is an across-category change? - ANSWER-heard as different -close to the boundary what is anticipatory/forward coarticulation? - ANSWER-earlier sound is influenced by a later sound e.g. "spoon", lip rounding for /s/ which is not common what is characteristic of clear articulation (speech clarity)? - ANSWER--longer segment durations -released stops (hah v. haT) -less articulatory undershoot what is closed-loop feedback? - ANSWER--ongoing -leads to corrective adjustments what is FFT reveal more of? - ANSWER-vocal SOURCE what is jitter? - ANSWER-frequency perturbation what is open-loop feedback? - ANSWER--predictive -based on experience what is perceptual assimilation? - ANSWER-hearing an unfamiliar foreign sound and fitting it into on of our own categories (e.g. Japanese speakers who struggle to differentiate /r/ and /l/) what is phonetic memory and what are some characteristics? - ANSWER--it is lasting -forms long-term sound template -you can compare incoming sounds against template what is retentive/backward coarticulation? - ANSWER-a later sound is influenced by an earlier one e.g. "no", /o/ is nasalized because of /n/ what is science? what are the 4 features of the scientific method? - ANSWER--empirical -deterministic -predictive -parsimonious what is shimmer? - ANSWER-amplitude perturbation

what is the analogy for closed-loop feedback? - ANSWER-DRIVING ALONG A TWISTY ROAD -need constant visual feedback to ensure safety what is the analogy for motor program theories? - ANSWER-production is like playing out a written musical score -YOU are the composer and orchestra -you are producing the speech you planned just previously what is the analogy for open-loop feedback? - ANSWER-ARCHERY -control only up to point that arrow is released -through a number of trials, you realize that a certain action results in success or not what is the cake analogy to a Fourier transform? - ANSWER-analyze a cake to learn its ingredients what is the criticism/limitation of motor program theories? - ANSWER--STORAGE PROBLEM - can we store all possible movement patterns for any sound or syllable we speak? -FLEXIBILITY - can a program be flexibly adapted? what is the difference between perturbation and modulation? - ANSWER-modulation is much slower than random cycle-to-cycle perturbation; modulation is spread across many cycles what is the Lindblom's H&H hypothesis? - ANSWER-hypo -relaxed atmosphere hyper -in noisy environments what is the McGurk effect? - ANSWER-visual input can conflict and misrepresent what we are hearing aurally what is the Nyquist frequency? - ANSWER-half the sample rate what is the process of speech motor control? (5) - ANSWER-1) correct timing and depth of INHALATION

  1. appropriate RESPIRATORY phase for PHONATION
  2. suitable level of VOCAL FOLD ADDUCTION
  3. relative timing of VOICE ONSETS and OFFSETS
  4. multiple vocal tract structures move for each PHONEME -TIMING and COORDINATION are precise in normal speech what is the x-axis in a speech spectrogram? - ANSWER-X = TIME what is the y-axis in a speech spectrogram? - ANSWER-Y = FREQUENCY