Speech information Flashcards
250 Hz
1st formant of vowels /u/ and /i/
250 Hz
fundamental frequency of female’s & children’s voices
250 Hz
Nasal murmur associated with the phoneme /m/, /n/, ad /ng/
250 Hz
male voice harmoics
250 Hz
Voicing cues
250 Hz
Prosody
250 Hz
Suprasegmentals patterns (stress, rate, inflection, intonation)
500 Hz
1st formant of most vowels
500 Hz
Harmonics of all voices (male, female, child)
500 Hz
Voicing cues
500 Hz
Nasality cues
500 Hz
Suprasegmentals
500 Hz
Some plosive bursts associated with /b/ and /d/
1000 Hz
Important acoustic cues for manner
1000 Hz
2nd formants of back and central vowels
1000 Hz
Important consonant-vowel and vowel-consonant transition information
1000 Hz
Nasality cues
1000 Hz
Some plosive bursts
1000 Hz
Voicing cues
1000 Hz
Suprasegmentals
2000 Hz
Important acoustic cues for place of articulation
2000 Hz
2nd and 3rd formant information for front vowels
2000 Hz
Consonant-vowel and vowel-consonant transition information
2000 Hz
Acoustic information for the liquids /r/ and /l/
2000 Hz
Plosive bursts
2000 Hz
Affricate bursts
2000 Hz
Fricative turbulence
4000 Hz
Key frequency for /s/ and /z/ audibility (critical for language learning)
why is the key frequency of 4000Hz for /s/ and /z/ audibility critical for language learning?
Plurals Idioms possessives auxiliaries 3rd person singular verb forms questions copulas past perfect
4000 Hz
Consonant quality
