Speech Perception

Question 1

Variability problem

Answer 1

No simple correspondence between the acoustic signal and individual phonemes

Question 2

Coarticulation

Answer 2

Overlap between articulation of neighboring phonemes

Question 3

Perceiving Breaks Between Words

Answer 3

• segmentation problem ➡️no physical breaks
• use top-down processing
• affected by context, meaning, and knowledge of word structure

Question 4

Transitional probability

Answer 4

Chance one sound will follow another in a language

Question 5

Broca’s Aphasia

Answer 5

Cannot produce speech

Question 6

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Answer 6

Disorganized speech with difficulty understanding speech