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23 Cards in this Set
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Articulater |
Change the shape of the vocal track ie frequency Lips teeth tongue soft palate |
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Vowel |
Each vowel has their own characteristics sets of resonant frequencies |
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First format |
Lowest frequency |
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Second formant |
Second lowest frequency |
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Formant transition |
Slight changes at the start of the formant that is caused from transitioning from one sound to another |
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Consonants |
Produce by a constrictions of the vocal track and air flow AROUND the articulators |
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Phoneme |
Smallest unit or speech |
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Coarticulation |
Overlap between articulations of neighbouring phonemes also causes variations |
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Phoneme context |
The sounds prior and post the target phoneme |
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Categorical perception |
Wide range of acoustics are categorised in perception
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Phonetic boundary |
A sudden change in perception of sound, despite the sounds actually changing incrementally |
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Phonemic restoration effect |
When the meaning of the word, or word in context of the sentence is understood, even if the phonemes of the word are lost, you can still understand the word itself as if it wasn’t lost at all |
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Speech segmentation |
How we understand the end of one word start of another |
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Transitional probability |
The chance one sound will follow another |
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Statistical learning |
The process of learning transitions probabilities |
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Acoustic stimulus/ signal |
Patterns of change produced in the air |
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Formant |
Frequency that occurs in the peaks of pressure |
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Manner of articulations |
How articulators interact to make a speech sound Mouth teeth tongue lips |
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Place of articulations |
Location of articulations Front to back of mouth B to G |
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Audiovisual speech perception |
Influence of vision on speech perception |
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Effect of meaning on perception of phonemes |
Can more quickly recognise a phoneme if it’s part of a word you know Result still apply to the first phoneme even before you consciously understand the word |
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Broca aphasia |
Slow Hard to produce the speech needed Difficulty understanding certain types of sentences |
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Wernickes aphasia |
Fluent but makes no damn sense Incoherent |
