Exam 12: Speech Perception

Whether the vocal chords are vibrating or not is referred to as ______.

Patient RW has non-fluent speech.She is able to say just a few words, mostly nouns.However, she understands speech without any difficulties and can shake her head yes or no correctly in response to most questions.What is your diagnosis?

Formants are frequency bands with higher amplitudes among the harmonics of a vowel sound; each individual vowel sound has a specific pattern of formants.

Speech sounds made with unrestricted airflow are known as ______.

______ is an important area in the production of speech that is located in the left frontal lobe.

General-mechanism theories of speech perception claim that ______.

Explain the differences in how we produce vowels, voiced consonants, and unvoiced consonants.

You have been assigned to assist in the treatment of KW, a right-handed 32-year-old male who is recovering from a motorcycle accident.The accident resulted in moderate damage to the left frontal lobe of KW's brain.The rest of KW's brain did not suffer major injury.What effects is KW likely to experience as a result of this brain damage, and what diagnosis would you provide?

Eimas and Corbit (1973) did an experiment in which they presented listeners with sounds in which the voicing varied from 0 ms up to 80 ms for "ta" and "da." At 0 ms, listeners heard the sound as "da," and at 80 ms, listeners heard the sound as "ta." Eimas and Corbit were interested in what listeners would hear when intermediate voicings were presented (e.g., 20-, 40-, and 60-ms voice-onset times).They found that listeners ______.

The point along the vocal tract at which the airflow is constricted, such as the lips, teeth, and structures along the back of the mouth, is known as ______.

Even people who show no threshold differences to normal when wearing hearing aids may still show deficits in speech perception.

To determine if the person you are listening to has just said, "The fryer gave potatoes to the chipmunk" or "The friar gave potatoes to the chip monk," you must know ______.

Which of the following tends to be the most problematic for hearing-impaired people who use hearing aids?

The tube bringing air to and from the mouth is known as the ______.

What is one advantage of the International Phonetic alphabet?

If you came down with an illness that prevented your vocal cords from vibrating properly, this would likely have the greatest impact on your ability to produce ______.

In the motor theory of speech perception, it is thought that ______.

The average speaker may talk at a rate of roughly one word every 50 ms.

The theory that the core of speech perception is that the system infers the sound from the movements of the vocal tract is known as the ______ theory of speech perception.

Give an example of how knowledge about language affects how we perceive speech.Be sure to explain what processes are involved in your example.