Physiological and Acoustic Phonetics: A speech Science Foundation

Question 1

What are the four things we need for speech

Answer 1

respiration
phonation
resonation
articulation

Question 2

What is the study of sound systems and patterns used to create the sounds and words of a language?

Answer 2

phonology

Question 3

What are the smallest units of sound that can affect meaning?

Answer 3

phonemes

Question 4

____is the abstract system of sounds. _______ is the concrete production of specific sounds

Answer 4

phonemic

phonetic

Question 5

What is a wave with horizontal and vertical symmetry that contains one peak and one valley and has a single frequency?

Answer 5

sinusoidal wave

Question 6

what dB is conversational speech?

Answer 6

50 to 70 dB

Question 7

what is the influence of one phoneme upon another production and perception wherein two different articulators move simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds?

Answer 7

coarticulation

Question 8

what are the two properties the affect sound transmission?

Answer 8

mass and elasticity

Question 9

A natural frequency is a frequency

Answer 9

with which a sound source vibrates naturally

Question 10

the back and forth movement of air molecules because of a vibrating object is referred to as

Answer 10

osscilation

Question 11

the lowest frequency of a periodic wave is also known as

Answer 11

the fundamental frequency of the first harmonic

Question 12

____ varies mostly as a result of tongue height

Answer 12

F1

Question 13

______ varies mostly as a result of tongue advancement (variation in the anterior to posterior position of the tongue in the oral cavity

Answer 13

f2

Question 14

what formant is closely related to the oral cavity size

Answer 14

F2

Question 15

What is a characteristic of the distinctive feature analysis

Answer 15

it is a binary system

Question 16

Tongue lowering reduces the size of the pharyngeal cavity and does which

Answer 16

increase F1

Question 17

Tongue fronting reduces the size of the oral cavity and does which

Answer 17

increase F2

Question 18

the rules on how sounds can be combined to make words

Answer 18

phonology or phonotactics

Question 19

decreasing the size of the oral cavity increases ___

Answer 19

F2

Question 20

Tongue low in mouth, small pharyngeal cavity, high ___

Answer 20

F1

Question 21

Tongue high in mouth, large pharyngeal cavity, low ___

Answer 21

F1

Question 22

Tongue forward in mouth, small oral cavity, high ___

Answer 22

F2

Question 23

Tongue back in mouth, large oral cavity, low ___

Answer 23

F2