Speech Perception and Production

Question 1

development of speech perception - motor

Answer 1

random and involuntary - they have no control over their bodies but the first thing they start to control is their head

Question 2

development of speech perception - cognitive

Answer 2

experience and understand the world

Question 3

development of speech perception - social

Answer 3

increase in sophistication of instructions, increase in attachment and responsiveness, and becomes attach to care taker - smiling

Question 4

social perception - methods of testing - habituation

Answer 4

when you become

Question 5

social perception - methods of testing - non-nutritive sucking & heart rate

Answer 5

-> you stick a pacifier in mouth & it shows the sucking rate ; when the sucking rate or heart rate changes then you know they receive hearing differently

Question 6

social perception - methods of testing - visually reinforced speech discrimination

Answer 6

can treat them to respond differently to sounds - we’re doing to see if they can hear differences in sound

Question 7

speech perception - categorical perception

Answer 7

testing to see if they could recognize all the different sounds

Question 8

speech perception - development of discrimination

Answer 8

trehub(1978) - Canadian infants - they found that 6-8 months they could hear the differences between all languages and 10-12 months their native language

Question 9

speech perception - theoretical implications

Answer 9

elimas(1974) - linguistic feature detector - that they are born able to hear these distinctions

Question 10

speech milestones - crying/vegetative

Answer 10

(Birth - 4months) the newborn stage, crying is a reflex, vegetative: burps, gruggle, snort

Question 11

speech milestones - cooing

Answer 11

(1-4 months), vowel like sounds (a,e,i,o,u) - starting to produce actual sounds

Question 12

speech milestones - marginal babbling

Answer 12

(4-6 months) start with front sounds, they start with constant and then vowel

Question 13

speech milestones - vocal play

Answer 13

(6-8 months) reduplicated babbling, you have a sound and you do it over and over again,

Question 14

speech milestones - echolalia

Answer 14

(8-12 months) they repeat things that they hear ex:mama, dada

Question 15

speech milestones - jargon

Answer 15

syllables with stress & intonation (prosody) - they have appropriate stress and intonation without actual words because they don’t have enough language

Question 16

speech production theories - discontinuity

Answer 16

playful; universal babbling

Question 17

speech production theories - continuity

Answer 17

purposeful - that their early stages of speech is purposeful
phonetic drift - although they all are in the same way then to vocalization they start making sounds in their own language