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WorksheetsSpeech Perception 2
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 16mins
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1.
What can we see with speech spectrograms?
a)
time, sound frequencies, & formants
b)
place, manner, voicing
c)
vertical/horizontal position of the tongue
d)
light frequencies & absorption lines
2.
Coarticulation causes the individual sounds in a word to "overlap" somewhat. This is helpful to speech perception since it provides WHAT to the listener?
a)
redundancy in the signal
b)
a continuum of speech sounds
c)
visual information
d)
vowel formant frequencies
3.
If you're listening to someone talking but some speech sounds are missing, what might help your brain recreate the message?
a)
background noise
b)
silent gaps
c)
flashes of light
d)
electrical shocks
4.
When you parse brand-new, raw, auditory information and then build words and phrases from them, you're doing this.
a)
Bottom-Up Processing
b)
Top-Down Processing
c)
Coarticulating
d)
Categorically Perceiving
5.
From the point of view of speech PRODUCTION, coarticulation of speech sounds helps us to:
a)
speak faster
b)
figure out words quickly
c)
create phonemic categories quickly
d)
perceive F1 and F2 quickly
6.
What are the smallest categories of speech sounds that we can perceive?
a)
phonemes to a psycholinguist
b)
phonemes to a linguist
c)
allophones
d)
morphemes
7.
In noisy situations, people can figure out real words better than non-words. This is:
a)
lexical effects on phoneme restoration
b)
contextual effects on phoneme restoration
c)
the Ganong Effect
d)
Categorical Perception
8.
What are 2 kinds of "Slips of the Ear" (misunderstandings that lead to competence errors)?
a)
mondegreens & eggcorns
b)
Spoonerisms & blends
c)
anticipations & perseverations
d)
metathesis & additions
9.
Given conflicting auditory & visual speech information: our brains take the visual info into account when trying to parse the signal. This is:
a)
the McGurk Effect
b)
the Ganong Effect
c)
the Categorical Perception Effect
d)
the Phoneme Restoration Effect
10.
What are markings on speech transcriptions that provide very precise articulatory information?
a)
diacritics
b)
allophones
c)
formants
d)
phonemes
11.
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)
coarticulation
d)
the McGurk Effect
12.
Everyone has a different vocal tract & therefore no one's vowels are exactly alike. How do we figure out what vowels are being said?
a)
by perceiving ratios of vowel formants
b)
by perceiving vowels categorically
c)
by perceiving the vowels' diacritic markings
d)
by restoring their phonemes
13.
Our brains can fill in missing sounds from a speech signal and we believe that we really heard them. This is:
a)
the Phoneme Restoration Effect
b)
the Ganong Effect
c)
the McGurk Effect
d)
the Categorical Perception Effect
14.
Which of the following is NOT a reason that speech perception is "hard"?
a)
the speech signal is based on context
b)
the speech signal is continuous
c)
the speech signal is delivered in "parallel"
d)
the speech signal is highly variable
15.
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
16.
What are the articulatory features of vowels?
a)
vertical/horizontal position of the tongue
b)
place, manner, voicing
c)
nasality & height
d)
degree of creaky & breathy voice
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