WorksheetsSpeech Perception 1
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 16mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which is NOT an example of Bottom-up Processing?
a)
when we use lexical information to help in noisy environments
b)
when we use redundancy in the signal - coarticulation helps
c)
when we perceve categories of sounds (phonemes), not allophones
d)
when we perceive ratios of vowel formants, not absolutes
2.
The length of time between the release of a stop consonant & the beginning of the following vowel's voicing is called:
a)
Voice Onset Time
b)
coarticulation
c)
Categorical Perception
d)
the Ganong Effect
3.
What kinds of speech sounds can easily be identified by the shapes of their formants + formant transitions?
a)
vowels
b)
consonants
c)
syllables
d)
all phonemes
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 boundaries can be heard in the speech signal AND seen in speech spectrograms?
a)
sometimes phrase & sentence boundaries
b)
word boundaries
c)
phoneme boundaries
d)
syllable boundaries
6.
What are the dark bands on spectrograms that reflect the energy of the sound?
a)
formants
b)
phonemes
c)
allophones
d)
diacritics
7.
Which is NOT an example of variability in the speech signal?
a)
the lack of boundaries between words and phonemes
b)
people with different sized/shaped vocal tracts
c)
people talking in noisy environments
d)
dialect / idiolect differences
8.
Given a speech continuum like gift-kift: a category boundary (k or g?) will shift toward the real word. This is:
a)
the Ganong Effect
b)
the McGurk Effect
c)
the Phoneme Restoration Effect
d)
the Phonotactic Constraint Effect
9.
When we produce speech sounds, their characteristics seem to overlap upon each other. Each speech sound is influenced by, and becomes more like, a preceding or following speech sound. This is called what?
a)
coarticulation
b)
Categorical Perception
c)
the McGurk Effect
d)
the Grammaticality Effect
10.
Why can infants perceive phonemes from foreign languages that adults can't?
a)
They haven't developed phoneme categories for their native tongue(s) yet.
b)
They haven't developed vowel formant ratios for their native tongue(s) yet.
c)
They haven't figured out coarticulation yet.
d)
They haven't figured out redundancy in the signal yet.
11.
What are the smallest units of speech that (1) are abstract representations, and (2) can change the meaning of a word?
a)
phonemes to a linguist
b)
allophones
c)
phonemes to a psycholinguist
d)
morphemes
12.
In noisy situations, people use the rest of the sentence to figure out any missing speech sounds. This is:
a)
contextual effects on phoneme restoration
b)
lexical effects on phoneme restoration
c)
the Ganong Effect
d)
Categorical Perception
13.
When previously stored information (syntax, context, etc.) helps you parse what you hear, you're doing this.
a)
Top-Down Processing
b)
Bottom-Up Processing
c)
Coarticulating
d)
Categorically Perceiving
14.
What are the articulatory features of consonants?
a)
place, manner, voicing
b)
vertical/horizontal position of the tongue
c)
nasality & frication
d)
degree of liquidness & affrication
15.
From the point of view of speech PERCEPTION, coarticulation of speech sounds helps us to:
a)
figure out words quickly
b)
speak faster
c)
create phonemic categories quickly
d)
perceive F1 and F2 quickly
16.
“Speech Perception is multi-modal.” This means that we can use WHAT to help us parse speech?
a)
both auditory & visual information
b)
both auditory & olfactory information
c)
both auditory & extra-sensory perception
d)
both phonemic and allophonic information
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