Exam 4: Perception of Language

________ are produced by impeding the airflow at some location in the vocal tract.

VOT is a(n) __________ and ___________ cue to voicing in stop consonants.

Pollack and Pickett (1964) showed that when a word is isolated from its context it becomes:

The phenomenon of producing more than one speech sound at a time is called:

Researchers studying __________ are most likely to make use of a speech spectrogram.

A general term that refers to the aspects of an utterance's sound that are not specific to the words themselves (for example, intonation and rate) is:

McGurk and MacDonald (1976) found that when a speaker's lips produce the syllable /ga/ while an audio tape of the sound /ba/ is played, listeners hear the fused sound as:

The study of speech sounds that references the movements within the vocal tract is:

Readers pick up visual information:

The lack of invariance refers to the fact that there is no one-to-one correspondence between:

___________ maps sounds of language onto written symbols or characters

Studies of mispronunciation detection have found that restorations are:

________ refers to the fact that acoustic properties of different phonemes overlap in time in the speech signal.

The consonants /b/, /d/, and /g/ differ in their ________

The motor theory of speech perception:

Studies of categorical perception have found that:

For speech processing to be modular it must:

The speech sounds [p], [b], and [k] are instances of:

A formant is:

In a study on categorical perception, listeners hear two sounds and then a third, and determine if the third sound was the same as the first or the second. Results show that: