Deck 4: The Visual and Auditory Codes: Kinesics and Vocalics

Question 1

Between the third and sixth month, infants enter the babbling period and learn the vocalic skill of:

A) Intonation
B) Silence
C) Tempo
D) Loudness

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following are not structural approaches to measure vocalics?

A) Pitch, inflection, & loudness
B) Segmentals & nonsegmentals
C) Duration features, pause features, & intensity
D) Kinemes & kinemorphs

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Vocal fillers, such as "umm" and "like", would be classified as which linguistic category?

A) Segmentals - Vocalizations
B) Segmentals - Paralinguistic alternants
C) Nonsegmentals - Vocal segregates
D) Nonsegmentals - Surpasegmentals

Answer 3

C

Question 4

An example of Poggi's Mind Markers would be:

A) If someone is yelling while communicating to someone at a far distance
B) If someone says "hmm" when asked who their favorite teacher was in grade school
C) If someone keeps saying "like" during a speech
D) If someone says "mmhmm" instead of "yes"

Question 5

An example of a vocalized adaptor would be:

A) Sneezing
B) Saying "bless you" to someone who just sneezed
C) Saying "oooh" to someone who just sneezed
D) Staying silent when someone just sneezed

Question 6

The terms paralanguage, prosody, or noncontent speech are all good synonyms for oculesics.

Question 7

The study of vocalics does not include any vocalizations.

Question 8

The acoustic study of the voice studies the voice according to frequencies and wave lengths.

Question 9

What is difference between the structural and functional approach to vocalics?

Question 10

What are three of the functions of silences?