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Chapter 12: Perceiving Speech And Music Flashcards

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Speech Perception

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  • Deals with how language sounds are perceived

- Involves relationship between perception and production

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Phonemes

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  • smallest unit of sound that can change meaning of word

- sounds we can pronounce

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Morphemes

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Smallest unit of sound that provides meaning to word

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

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  • alphabet in which each symbol stands for different speech sounds
  • provides distinctive way to write each phoneme in all human languages currently in use
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Producing the sounds of speech

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  • speech starts in the brain

- after a speaker determines what to say, the other parts of the sound production system come into play

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Difference in fundamental frequency

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Male (85 Hz)
Female (150-200 Hz)
Children (300+ Hz)

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Vocal Folds

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Aka vocal cords

  • pair of membranes within larynx
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Larynx

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Aka voice box

  • part of vocal tract that contains vocal fold
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Pharynx

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Uppermost part of throat

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Uvula

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Flop of tissue that hangs off posterior edge of soft palate

- can close off nasal cavity

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Speech Production System

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Influences by contraction and relaxation of throat muscles and tongue activity

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Vowels

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Produced with relatively unrestricted flow of air through pharynx and oral cavity

  • uninterrupted, unrestricted flow
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Formats

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Frequency bonds with relatively high amplitude in harmonic spectrum of vowel sound

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Consonants

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Produced by restricting flow of air at one place of another along path of airflow vocal folds

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Place of Articulation

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In production of consonants, points in vocal tract at which airflow is restricted, described in terms of anatomical structures involved in creating restriction

  • closing of lip
  • top teeth and bottom lip
  • tongue behind upper teeth
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Manner of articulation

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Nature of restriction of airflow in vocal tract

  • whether air is fully stopped or just restricted
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Voicing

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Specifies whether vocal folds are vibrating or not (whether consonant is voiced or voiceless)

  • whether vocal fold vibrate or not
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Vowel Sounds: Production and Frequency Spectrum

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Speech sound changes formant

Formants= harmonics with increased amplitude for specific sound

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Sound Spectogram

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Graph that includes dimensions of frequency, amplitude, and time, showing how frequencies corresponding to each sound in utterance change over time

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Phonemes cannot be identified by mapping […] to specific phonemes

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Phonemes cannot be identified by mapping specific frequencies to specific phonemes

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Speech sounds vary, even with the same speakers, for a variety of causes

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  • sloppy enunciation
  • speaking with mouth full
  • coarticulation
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Coarticulation

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Influence of one phoneme on acoustic properties of another due to articulatory movements required to produce them in sequence

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Variability in the Acoustics of Phonemes

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Ex. The difference between “resisting arrest” and “resisting a rest”

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Categorical perception of phonemes

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  • refers to the perception of different sensory stimuli as identical, up to a point at which further variation in the stimulus leads to a sharp change in the perception
  • means that a change in some variable along a continuum is perceived not as gradual but as an instance of discrete categories
  • opposite of continuous perception (no sharp changes in perception
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Categorical perception and voice onset time (VOT)

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Categorical perception happens when categories that observers possess influence that observer’s perception

Ex Ba vs Da

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Voice Onset Time (VOT)

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In production of stop consonants, interval between initial burst of frequencies and onset of voicing

*varies due to consonant place and manner of articulation

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Phonemic Boundary

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VOT at which stop constant transitions from being perceived as voiced —> voiceless

*when sound started vs when voicing started

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McGurk effect

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In perception of speech sounds, when auditory and visual stimuli conflict , the auditory system tends to compromise on a perception that shares features with both seen and heard stimuli

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Knowledge takes 3 forms

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  1. Knowledge of the grammatical rules of the language and the context in which an utterance is produced
  2. Knowledge about the probability of various sequences of phonemes within words or across words in the language they’re hearing
  3. Knowledge of the specific words that are expected in a particular situation
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[…] speech is easier to perceive than […] speech

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Grammatical speech is easier to perceive than ungrammatical speech

  • grammatical> anomalous>ungrammatical
  • ungrammatical speech is characteristic of Wernicke’s area
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Word Segmentation

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  • in general, perception of language is a clear separation between words (segmentation)
  • in reality, talking involved creating a continuous, connected stream of sounds— except when pausing
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Word Segmentation: A different type of perceptual challenge relates to the […] between words in the sound stream of normal speech

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Word Segmentation: A different type of perceptual challenge relates to the indistinct boundaries between words in the sound stream of normal speech

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Infant Learning of Transition Probabilities

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Infants can predict what words come next

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Phoneme Transition Probabilities

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For any particular sequence of phonemes, the changes that sequences occur at start of a word, at end of word, or across boundary between two words

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Phonemic Restoration Effect

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Kind of perceptual completion in which listeners seem to perceive obscured or missing speech sounds

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Results of Shahin and Miller’s (2009) study reinforce the conclusion that […]

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Results of Shahin and Miller’s (2009) study reinforce the conclusion that knowledge is important in phonemic restoration

*knowledge of the mouth movements associated with specific words and their phonemes

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Aphasia

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Impairment in speech production/ comprehension (or both) caused by damage to speech centers in brain

Broca’s Aphasia: speech production
Wernicke’s aphasia: speech comprehension
Globus aphasia: arcuate fasciculus

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Speech Pathways in Brain

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Ventral Pathway: meaning and combo of words (“what”)

Dorsal Pathway: production of speech using motor system (“where/how”)

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Music: No other creature seems to have the ability to compose music other than humans

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  • music has the ability to evoke emotional responses from humans
  • understanding of music requires an appreciation of pitch loudness, timing, and timbre combinations that composers can use to create a musical experience
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Pitch

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Perceptual basis of organization with notes separated by proportionally equivalent intervals

    - notes separated by an octave are perceptually more similar than notes separated by some other intervals
    - semitone intervals are perceptually equivalent to one another
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Octave

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Sequence of notes in which fundamental frequency of last note is double the fundamental frequency of first note

Ex. A4= 220 Hz, A5= 440 Hz

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Semitones

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12 proportionally equivalent intervals between notes in octave

  • difference between A1 and A1# and A8 and A8#
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C3 and C4 are perceptually […] than B4 and C4

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C3 and C4 are perceptually more similar than B4 and C4

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Pitch helix illustrates similarity among pitches […]

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Pitch helix illustrates similarity among pitches geometrically

      - Tone chroma
      - Tone height

distance between successive notes along helix is constant— perception of constant difference in pitch

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Tone Chroma

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Difference in pitch within octave

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Tone Height

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Octave in which pitch appears

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Dynamics

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Manner in which loudness varies as a piece of music progresses

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Rhythm

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Temporal patterning of events in a musical composition

  • Tempo
  • Beat
  • Meter
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Tempo

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How fast/ slow overall piece is

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Beat

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Equally spaced pulses that can express fast or slow tempo

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Meter

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Temporal patterning of strong and weal pulses in beat over time

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Dimensions of Music: Timbre

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Attack and decay: ways in which harmonic components begin than fade away

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Melody

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Sequence of musical notes arranged in particular rhythmic pattern, which listeners perceive as single, recognizable unit

Melodies can be recognized even when the notes are transposes to a different musical key

  • infants recognize melody at 6 months
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Transposition

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Two versions of same melody, containing same melody, containing same intervals but starting at different notes

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Scales

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Particular subset of notes on octave

  • major and minor scales
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Key

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Scale that functions as basis of musical compositions

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Harmony

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Consonance and Dissonance

  • some combinations of notes are consonant while other are dissonant
  • this is due to the harmonicity or lack thereof in the harmonics of the combined tones
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Consonance

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Quality exhibited by combo of 2+ notes form scale that sound pleasant

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Dissonance

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Quality exhibited by combo of 2+ notes from scale that sounds unpleasant

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Harmonicity

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Extent to which harmonics of notes played in combo coincide with harmonics of notes with lower fundamental frequency

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Gestalt Principles of Melody

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  • Proximity
  • Similarity
  • Closure
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Neural Basis of Music Perception

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Once neural information leaves the primary auditory cortex, the brain has areas that are more active when processing certain types of sounds

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Fixed-pitched sequence vs silence

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More active left and right auditory cortex

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Changing-pitch sequence vs fixed-pitched sequence

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Only right auditory cortex responds

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Color Music Synesthesia

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combining color whenever music is played

*each note has its own color

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Mirror Neurons in Music

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When non-musicians listened to songs they learned on piano, brain areas for music perception and finger movements were activated

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Absolute Pitch

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Listened to isolated notes and same them accurate and efforlessly

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Antonia

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Can’t match of identify pitch

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Amusia

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Profound impairment in perceiving and remembering melodies and in distinguishing one melody from another

  • congenital or developed after brain damage
  • 4% of population
  • can sound like pots and pans
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Musical training and experience

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Solidifies musical areas in brain

  • magnitude of brain activity between musicians and nonmusicians is higher in experience musicians
  • both groups showed equivalent patterns of activity
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Language, Culture, and Music

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  • Music and Language- some languages are more lyrical than others
  • Learning and Culture and affect Music Perception
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Musical Illusions

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Sheperd Tones
Octave Illusion
Tritons Paradox

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Sheperd Tones

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Layered tone separated by one octave

  • top line gets quieter, middle line stay the same, and bottom line gets louder
  • Pitch increases
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Octave Illusions

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2 notes that are one octave apart are played alternatively

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Tritone paradox

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Sequentially paired Sheperd tones that some people perceive as ascending and others perceive as descending

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Automatic Speech Recognition

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Accurate perception of human speech by machines

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Speech Perception by Machines

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  1. Many modern devices incorporate automatic speech recognition (ASR) to allow user control via spoken commands and requests
  2. The first step in the process of ASR is to convert the waveform of the utterance into a set of feature vectors that capture the spectral information in the speech
  3. Then the acoustic parameters that characterize the speech sounds are computed
  4. Finally, linguistic and lexical information is used to help guide the search for the most probably word sequence corresponding to the acoustic parameters (hypothesis search)

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