Acoustics Flashcards
1
Q
What does amplitude of a wave indicate
A
Loudness
2
Q
What does frequency of a wave indicate?
A
Pitch
3
Q
Define Formants
A
Formants are peaks in the vowel’s frequency
spectrum
they match the resonance frequencies of the vocal tract
4
Q
What does F1 roughly correlate to
A
Vowel height
Correlation is inverse, low F1 in high vowels, high F1 in low vowels
5
Q
What does F2 correlate with
A
Strongly with frontness in the mouth, can also determine frontness with gap between F1 and F2.
Higher in front vowels, lower in back (and rounded) vowels
6
Q
What does F3 correlate with
A
Rounding and Rhoticity
