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1
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What are the four things we need for speech

A

respiration
phonation
resonation
articulation

2
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What is the study of sound systems and patterns used to create the sounds and words of a language?

A

phonology

3
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What are the smallest units of sound that can affect meaning?

A

phonemes

4
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____is the abstract system of sounds. _______ is the concrete production of specific sounds

A

phonemic

phonetic

5
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What is a wave with horizontal and vertical symmetry that contains one peak and one valley and has a single frequency?

A

sinusoidal wave

6
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what dB is conversational speech?

A

50 to 70 dB

7
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what is the influence of one phoneme upon another production and perception wherein two different articulators move simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds?

A

coarticulation

8
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what are the two properties the affect sound transmission?

A

mass and elasticity

9
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A natural frequency is a frequency

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with which a sound source vibrates naturally

10
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the back and forth movement of air molecules because of a vibrating object is referred to as

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osscilation

11
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the lowest frequency of a periodic wave is also known as

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the fundamental frequency of the first harmonic

12
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____ varies mostly as a result of tongue height

A

F1

13
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______ varies mostly as a result of tongue advancement (variation in the anterior to posterior position of the tongue in the oral cavity

A

f2

14
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what formant is closely related to the oral cavity size

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F2

15
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What is a characteristic of the distinctive feature analysis

A

it is a binary system

16
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Tongue lowering reduces the size of the pharyngeal cavity and does which

A

increase F1

17
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Tongue fronting reduces the size of the oral cavity and does which

A

increase F2

18
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the rules on how sounds can be combined to make words

A

phonology or phonotactics

19
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decreasing the size of the oral cavity increases ___

A

F2

20
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Tongue low in mouth, small pharyngeal cavity, high ___

A

F1

21
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Tongue high in mouth, large pharyngeal cavity, low ___

A

F1

22
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Tongue forward in mouth, small oral cavity, high ___

A

F2

23
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Tongue back in mouth, large oral cavity, low ___

A

F2