Exam 9: Vocalics Paralanguage

Nasality, screeching, softness, monotone, and speed. What concepts do these factors belong to?

This factor of vocalizations includes non-language sounds that are placed along a continuum from positive to negative evaluations. They include laughing, crying, whimpering, yelling, sneezing, moaning, groaning, belching, and voice breaking. We often recognize people by these. Which is it?

This aspect of sound that is produced during speech or conversation says that you will not speak in a monotone, the most deadly vocal characterizer for many public figures. Which is it?

Tell two ways to vocally indicate your desire to take your turn.

Using an example, discuss how you have seen someone ruin his/her presentation by the use of vocal segregates, or do a wonderful presentation due to the lack of them.

This turn cue for regulating the conversation has you creating a rising intonation pattern, or creating a falling intonation pattern, or just stopping speaking. Which is it?

Tell three characteristics of an ideal speaker's voice qualities.

This aspect of sound that is produced during speech or conversation has you using a tempo and rate that seems normal for the listeners. It is neither too slow nor fast, with a rhythm that seems normal for the listeners. Which is it?

Tell the findings about "bad voices" and establishing relationships.

Using an example, discuss how you have seen an emotional message become obvious to you through the use of voice.

Each individual's voice is unique, similar to fingerprints, and this can now be used for identification purposes. This technology is new, and it is becoming more and more reliable. What concept does this refer to?

Tell the general findings about specific accents and/or dialects.

Breathy, tense, breathy-tense, nasal, denasal, orotund, flat, thin, throaty, fronted. What concepts do these belong to?

Using an example, discuss how you have seen someone's voice either match his/her body shape and size or not match it and what that communicated to you.

This turn cue for regulating the conversation has you taking an audible breath, using a sustained intonation pattern, speeding up your rate, or using vocalized pauses or fillers. Which is it?

Using an example, discuss how you have used voice set to recognize someone you know well to recognize him/her, to judge his/her mood/disposition, or like things.

Tell the ways vocalics can contribute to meaning.

This form of pause is governed by some rule or norm; we pause because we think we're supposed to. Which is it?

Tell the encoding and decoding aspects of vocalics.

Tell the speech rate and volume factors that influence how speakers are perceived.