Loudness

Stuttering is a communication disorder that affects a person’s speech fluency. It is also known as dysfluency. It is characterized by three common characteristics, repetition of sounds, words, or syllables; prolongation of sound; and interruption in speech (Coleman, 2013). Someone who stutters knows exactly what they want to say but has some difficulty producing a normal flow of speech. Despite what some people may think, parenting styles and emotional problems are not a cause of stuttering.…

are shown below. Case 1 Improvement The amplification of the sound should be adjustable, as the vehicle is driving or is stopped. The point at issue The interactive soundscape system decreases the volume when the car comes to a halt. However, the loudness that attributes of auditory sensation is not changed by the pitch. The human auditory system has different sensitivity to hight of frequencies. The sensation of hearing is sensitive to high-pitched tone and insensitive to bass. The road noise…

1. Chapter 8: What are the secondary/overt/concomitant stuttering behaviors that are audible? How would you go about treating a student that exhibited these behaviors? (Page 205) In general, stuttering is a speech disorder that that is portrayed by two or more disturbances that can include silent blocks, sound prolongations, broken words, etc. Secondary/overt/concomitant stuttering behaviors occur as the individual is stuttering and are displayed as unnecessary sounds and facial/body…

DYSARTHRIA WHAT IS DYSARTHRIA? Speech production is a complex process involving the co-ordinated contraction of a large number of muscles controlled by the nerve impulses originating in the motor areas of cerebral cortex. The organs that are involved in speech production are the lips, the tongue, the vocal folds and the diaphragm. When these organs don’t function efficiently, the speech tends to be unclear. One such condition which results owing to the malfunctioning of the speech organs is…

New York Son! If I were to ask you “Where are you from?” and you shout out “New York son!” Chances are that I’ll file you under “CRAZY” and keep my distance. It’s as if New Yorkers have their own language in their own little world. Recently I was asked to dig deep and be honest with myself and identity one stereotype that I hold true about others. Well truth be told . . . all the intervention in the world couldn’t shake my stereotypical assumption of a New Yorker and to make matters interesting,…

Problem Set 7.1 a) Null Hypothesis: Within the 95% confidence interval there is no significant difference between the two-point threshold test disdances among the different areas. Alternate Hypothesis: Within the 95% confidence interval there is a significant difference between the two-point threshold test disdances among the different areas. b) The null hypothesis should be rejected because the p-value is 0 which is lower than 0.05, also because the conifence intervals for the back of the hand…

Numerous studies have been reported how velopharyngeal dysfunction can cause resonance disorder on individual with cleft lip and palate or other craniofacial anomalies. Velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD) is the velopharyngeal valve failing to close completely during production of the oral sounds. There are three types of velopharyngeal dysfunction, which are the velopharyngeal insufficiency (structure), velopharyngeal incompetence (movement), and velopharyngeal mislearning (articulation). Normal…

Introduction Suprasegmental, also called Prosodic Feature, in phonetics, a speech feature such as stress, tone, or word juncture that accompanies or is added over consonants and vowels; these features are not limited to single sounds but often extend over syllables, words, or phrases. They are features over above the segmental values such as place or manner of articulation, thus the supra- in segmental.The term prosodic comes from poetry, where it refers to the metrical structure of verse. One…

General Overview This composition is in a 3/4 tempo, typical rhythm for a bolero (Andalusian ballet) , but with a slower tempo (moderato assai). Two melodies, the first is in C major and it is diatonic, the second is in C minor and it is more rich of syncopation and flattened notes, like Bb, Eb and Db. Those two themes, are played on a rhythmic pattern without variations from the beginning to the Finale, structured in two bars, initially played only by drums, and it is used as introduction for…

of a reflecting wall. Boomy bass heavy room solutions • Remove thin curtains and carpet and replace materials that produce an effective absorption across the room. • Apply absorptive panels that are 3 inches thick. The thicker the material, the loudness and bass frequencies are reduced. • Replace reflective ceiling tiles with 1 inch acoustical absorptive tiles (NRC rated 0.95) such as fiberglass panels Echoes and waves solutions • The goal is to minimize parallel reflective paths between the…