Chapter 4

Question 1

What are three parts to the communication model?

Answer 1

Source
Message
Reciever

Question 2

Disruption of any parts of this model creates failure in:

Answer 2

Speech perception

Question 3

Fundamental frequency of male is _ than females

Answer 3

Lower

Question 4

For children, FF is _ than adults

Answer 4

Higher

Question 5

FF depends on the length of the _ _

Answer 5

Propagation velocity

Question 6

The propagation velocity depends on the _ and _ of the vocal folds

Answer 6

Mass and tension

Question 7

The speaker’s pitch is associated with the _ frequency of the glottal harmonic series

Answer 7

Lowest

Question 8

The VT modifies the glottal wave, enhancing those frequencies that correspond to the vocal tract’s natural resonant frequencies and damping those that do not. This is referring to:

Answer 8

Frequency response curve

Question 9

The frequencies at which the VT will resonate the most are illustrated by the _ of the FRC

Answer 9

Peaks

Question 10

This peaks are called:

Answer 10

Formants

Question 11

What is a shouting level in dB SPL?

Answer 11

85 dB

Question 12

Comfortable level in dB SPL?

Answer 12

65 dB

Question 13

Faint speech?

Answer 13

45dB

Question 14

The vowel has about _ times as much energy as the weakest phoneme

Answer 14

680

Question 15

There is greater power/acoustic energy for _ than consonants

Answer 15

Vowels

Question 16

Vowels are _ than consonants

Answer 16

Longer

Question 17

With vowels, air flows through the mouth with no _

Answer 17

Obstruction

Question 18

With consonants, air flow is:

Answer 18

Partially or completely obstructed

Question 19

What is coarticulation?

Answer 19

Articulation and perception of sounds are influenced by the sounds around it

Question 20

Distinguish detection from discrimination from identification:

Answer 20

Detection is hearing the sound
Discrimination is discriminating one sound from another
Identification is actually identifying a sound and what makes it different

Question 21

Sequential, step by step listening program designed to develop the use of residual hearing… what is this called?

Answer 21

Developmental Approach to Successful Listening

Question 22

What are the three sections of DASL?

Answer 22

Sound awareness
Phonetic listening
Auditory comprehension