Practice quiz

Question 1

cranial nerves in speech production

Answer 1

V, VII, X, XII

Question 2

how does the corticobulbar tract project brainstem’s motor nuclei

Answer 2

bilaterally: one side of the brain innervates left and right brainstem nuclei in parallel

Question 3

lower motor neuron lesion causes

Answer 3

flaccid paralysis or paresis

Question 4

motor neurons innvervating muscles of mastication reside in which brainstem nucleus

Answer 4

motor nucleus of trigeminal system

Question 5

lateral cricoarytenoid does

Answer 5

medical compression during vocalization and rotates muscular process of arytenoid laterally

Question 6

mentalis originates and inserts

Answer 6

in mandible and inserts into lower lip

Question 7

buccinator originates and inserts

Answer 7

maxilla and inserts by integrating with muscles of oral angle

Question 8

medial pterygoid muscle

Answer 8

closes the jaw

Question 9

antagonist of medial pterygoid

Answer 9

anterior belly of digastricus

Question 10

velopharyngeal muscles include

Answer 10

levator veli palatini, tensor veli palatini, and superior pharyngeal constrictor

Question 11

role of levator veli palatini muscles in velopharyngeal port closure

Answer 11

elevate and retract velum posteriorly

Question 12

role of pleural linkage in respiratory system

Answer 12

translation of rib movement through activation of respiratory muscles, into lung volume changes

Question 13

factor affects lung volume

Answer 13

age

Question 14

air remaining inlungs at the end of maximum expiration

Answer 14

residual volume

Question 15

max air that can be forcefully expired after max inspiration

Answer 15

vital capacity

Question 16

internal intercostal segment operates lower ribs

Answer 16

interosseous

Question 17

relaxation pressure curve illustrates

Answer 17

lung pressure created by passive elastic recoil and rebounding forces of lung wall system
changes in alveolar pressure produced by passive recoil and rebounding forces constitutes breathing apparatus

Question 18

vocal tract: open? closed?, etc?

Answer 18

pliable tube with one end open

sealed end is the closed glottis, open end, the oral or nasal opening

Question 19

spectrographic patterns of nasalized vowels vs non-nasalized

Answer 19

absence of sound energy at certain frequency

Question 20

peaks in vowel output spectrum with max energy transfer

Answer 20

formants

Question 21

vowel quadrilateral demonstrates

Answer 21

low vowels have higher F1 than high vowels

Question 22

oscillation of a particle around its rest position as result of recoil and inertial forces

Answer 22

simple harmonic motion

Question 23

resonance object tends to vibrate with ______ energy at ______.

Answer 23

max energy at a particular frequency

Question 24

period and frequency are _____ related

Answer 24

inversely

Question 25

formants are resonants of the vocal tract that

Answer 25

change in value according to alterations in shape of vocal tract

Question 26

position of the second formant for a given vowel (relative to the first formant) is mostly related to changes in:

Answer 26

volume of oral cavity

Question 27

3 quantitative measures depicted by a spectrogram

Answer 27

frequency amplitude, time

Question 28

sound occur least in english of:s, d, l, sh, z

Answer 28

“sh”

Question 29

difficult for children with high frequency hearing loss to percieve

Answer 29

/s/ (high frequency noise)

Question 30

vowel most similar to /j/

Answer 30

/i/ (tongue posture is high, front

Question 31

first sound has a long-lag voice-onset time out of: ten, boy, sing, dog, lion

Answer 31

ten

Question 32

long-lag voice-onset time is characteristic of

Answer 32

word initial voiceless stops

Question 33

example of rapid, ballistic tongue movement

Answer 33

-ing, k, t, m

Question 34

sound which production differs with blind and sighted children from: t, k, p, s, g

Answer 34

p: blind produce significantly lower proportion of bilabial sounds

Question 35

bucket handle rib rotation

Answer 35

result in a large change in a mediolateral volume of the thorax