Worksheetspsycholinguistics review acoustics, articulation, perception
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
A longitudial oscillating movement of air molecules affecting the hearing organs is...
a wave
a sound
a wind
a phoneme
The further you get away from the sound source...
the better you perceive the sound.
the higher the frequency gets.
the longer the sound wave becomes.
the worse you hear the sound.
Which sounds are better consumed by air?
with high frequency
with low frequency
The decrease of a sound's intensity after being reflected from objects and walls is...
reverberation
echo
sound illusion
oscillation
Tick three chracteristics of a sound
frequency
polarization
intensity
length
fluorescence
The maximum frequency a human ear can perceive is...
10 Hz
1000 Hz
20000 Hz
50000 Hz
What happens if the sound is 160Db loud?
We perceive it as a whisper.
We perceive it as a sound of a working motorcycle engine.
We don't hear it.
Our eardrums burst.
What's the function of lungs, wind pipe, bronchi and diaphragm in the speech production?
articulation
resonance
phonation
air transmission
What is this organ?
vocal cords
wind pipe
sinus
larynx
What happens in the middle ear?
The vibration that comes from the eardrum moves the malleus, incus and stapes.
Cochlea converts the movement of malleus, incus and stapes into signals that are passed on to the auditory nerve.
Soundwaves move the tympanic membrane.
The auditory nerve passes on the signals to the auditory cortex.
What do you call this articulator?
teeth
alveolar ridge
hard palate
velum
What do you call this articulator?
alveolar ridge
soft palate
hard palate
larynx
What do you call this articulator?
glottis
velum
hard palate
pharynx
The area of the brain responsible for comprehension of speech is ...
Broca's area
hearing cortex
auditory nerve
Wernicke's area
