Ch 2 Physiological and Acoustic Phonetics Flashcards
They “typical” speaker of Standard American English would produce the word EMANCIPATION as
C. The “typical” speaker of Standard American English would produce the word “emancipation” as /imaensepeIsen/
The /r/ and /l/ sounds may both be categorized as…
D. The /r/ and /l/ sounds may both be categorized as liquids
A semivowel that can be categorized as a voiced bilablial glide that is +anterior and +continuant is the…
B. The /w/ sound is a semivowel that can be categorized as a voiced bilabial glide that is +anterior and +continuant.
The term coarticulation refers to…
E. Coarticulaion is specifically defined as the influence of one phoneme upon another in production and perception, wherein two different articulators move simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds.
Broad phonemic transcription involves…
A. Broad phonemic transcription involves use of IPA symbols to transcribe phonemes by enclosing them with slash marks.
If a speaker said, “I just love ‘em and leave ‘em,” the phrase “leave ‘em” could be transcribed as…
D. If a speaker said, “I just love ‘em and leave ‘em,” the phrase “leave ‘em” could be transcribed as /liv m/.
The tow properties of a medium that affect sound transmission are…
B. The two properties of a medium that affect sound transmission are mass and elasticity.
A sinusoidal wave is a sound wave
A. with horizontal and vertical symmetry.
B. with one peak and one valley.
C. with a single frequency.
D. that is a result of simple harmonic motion.
E. all of the above
E. A sinusoidal wave is a sound wave with horizontal and vertical symmetry. It contains one peak, or crest, and one valley, or trough. It contains a single frequency and is the result of simple harmonic motion.
A natural frequency is a frequency
A. with which a source of sound vibrates naturally.
B. that is unrelated to the mass and stiffness of the vibrating body.
C. that is the center frequency of a formant.
D. that refers to the simple harmonic motion.
E. that is the lowest frequency of a periodic wave.
A. A natural frequency is a frequency with which a source of sound vibrates naturally and that is affected by the mass and stiffness of the vibrating body.
An octave is
A. the amount of molecular displacement per unit of time.
B. the amount of time between cycles.
C. an indication of interval between two frequencies.
D. a measure of the magnitude (intensity, strength) of the sound signal.
C. An octave is an indication of the interval between two frequencies.
The back-and-forth movement of air molecules because of a vibrating object is referred to as…
A. The back-and-forth movement of air molecules because of a vibrating object is referred to as oscillation.
The lowest frequency of a periodic wave is also known as…
B. The lowest frequency of a periodic wave is also known as the fundamental frequency or first harmonic.
When two or more sounds of differing frequencies are combined, the result is a
A. complex tone; the vibrations that make up this complex tone may be said to be periodic or aperiodic.
B. complex tone; the vibrations are always periodic, where waves repeat themselves at regular intervals.
C. pure tone, where the vibrations are usually periodic.
D. pure tone, where the vibrations are always aperiodic.
E. complex tone; the vibrations are usually aperiodic, where the vibrator patterns are random and the next pattern cannot be predicted from the previous pattern.
A When two or more sounds of differing frequencies are combined, the result is a complex tone; the vibrations that make up this complex tone may be said to be periodic or aperiodic.
When a speaker is producing a vowel and the vowel is being acoustically analyzed, one can state as a general rule that
A. F2 varies mostly as a result of the tongue height, and F1 varies mostly as a result of tongue position (variation in the anterior to posterior position of the tongue in the oral cavity).
B. F2 varies mostly as a result of tongue height, and F3 varies mostly as a result of tongue advancement (variation in the anterior to posterior position of the tongue in the oral cavity.
C. F1 varies mostly as a result of the tongue height, and F3 varies mostly as a result of tongue advancement (variation in the anterior to posterior position of the tongue in the oral cavity).
D. F1 varies mostly as a result of tongue height, and F2 varies mostly as a result of tongue advancement (variation in the anterior to posterior position of the tongue in the oral cavity).
E. F3 varies mostly as a result of tongue height, and F2 varies mostly as a result of tongue advancement (variation i the anterior to posterior position of the tongue in the oral cavity).
D. F1 varies mostly as a result of tongue height, and F2 varies mostly as a result of tongue advancement (variation in the anterior to posterior position of te tongue in the oral cavity).
In a periodic complex sound, tones that occur over the fundamental frequency and can be characterized as whole-number multiples of the fundamental frequency are called…
E. In a periodic complex sound, tones that occur over the fundamental frequency and can be characterized as whole-number multiples of the fundamental frequency are called harmonics.
