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WorksheetsSpeech Perception 2
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
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Class
Date
1.
When speech sounds are missing from the speech stream, what helps your brain recreate the message?
a)
noise
b)
silent gaps
c)
flashes of light
d)
electrical shocks
2.
What is it called when we perceive items along a continuum as being either more or less similar than they really are?
a)
Categorical Perception
b)
The Ganong Effect
c)
Perceiving vowel formant ratios
d)
The McGurk Effect
3.
What is Bottom-Up Processing?
a)
brand-new, raw, auditory information gets processed & words are built
b)
previously stored information (syntax, context, etc.) helps you parse what you hear
c)
when a component is duplicated so if it fails there will be a backup
d)
when we ask whether 2 sounds are the same or different
4.
What kind of experiment is it when a researcher asks whether 2 sounds are the same or different and records the subjects' answers & reaction times?
a)
Discrimination Task on adults
b)
Discrimination Task on babies
c)
Head-Turn Experiment on adults
d)
The McGurk Effect on adults
5.
What kinds of speech sounds can easily be identified by the shapes of their formants + formant transitions?
a)
vowels
b)
consonants
c)
syllables
d)
words
6.
Which is NOT an example of variability in the speech signal?
a)
the lack of boundaries between words and phonemes
b)
different sized/shaped vocal tracts
c)
noisy environments
d)
dialect / idiolect differences
7.
What are contextual knowledge effects on phoneme restoration?
a)
in noisy situations: people use the rest of the sentence to figure out missing speech sounds
b)
in noisy situations: people can figure out real words better than non-words
c)
The Ganong Effect
d)
when we perecive phonemes categorically
8.
What are formants?
a)
dark bands on spectrograms that reflect the energy of the sound
b)
the influence of one phoneme on another
c)
the smallest categories of speech sounds that we can perceive
d)
markings that provide very precise articulatory information
9.
What are lexical effects on phoneme restoration?
a)
in noisy situations: people can figure out real words better than non-words
b)
in noisy situations: people use the rest of the sentence to figure out missing speech sounds
c)
The Ganong Effect
d)
when we perecive phonemes categorically
10.
What are diacritics?
a)
markings on speech transcriptions that provide more precise articulatory information
b)
the influence of one phoneme on another
c)
dark bands on spectrograms that reflect the energy of the sound
d)
the smallest categories of speech sounds that we can perceive
11.
What kinds of boundaries can be heard in the speech signal & seen in speech spectrograms?
a)
sometimes phrase & sentence boundaries
b)
word boundaries
c)
phoneme boundaries
d)
syllable boundaries
12.
What are phonemes to a linguist?
a)
the smallest unit of speech that changes meaning of a word - an abstract representation
b)
versions of speech sounds that are predictable by their environment
c)
the smallest categories of speech sounds that we can perceive
d)
place, manner, voicing
13.
What is a good description of "redundancy in a signal"?
a)
when a component is duplicated so if it fails there will be a backup
b)
when we ask whether 2 sounds are the same or different
c)
when we perceive items along a continuum as being either more or less similar than they really are
d)
when we perceive ratios of vowel formants, not absolutes
14.
Which is NOT an example of Top-Down Processing?
a)
when we perceve categories of sounds (phonemes), not allophones
b)
when we use visual information to help in noisy environments
c)
when we use lexical information to help in noisy environments
d)
when we use syntactic information to help in noisy environments
15.
What are 2 kinds of "Slips of the Ear"?
a)
mondegreens & eggcorns
b)
Spoonerisms & blends
c)
anticipations & perseverations
d)
metathesis & additions
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