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Listening Flashcards

1
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What is receiving?

A

The perception of sound waves

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2
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What is attention?

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We select from numerous stimuli influenced by strength and sustainability

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3
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What are the 5 stages of listening?

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Receiving, understanding, remembering, evaluating and feedback

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4
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What is understanding?

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Analysing the meaning of what we perceive, in the given context

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5
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What is remembering?

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Option to add to memory bank, short or long term memory

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6
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What is evaluation?

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Active listener weighs evidence

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7
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What is response?

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Feedback

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8
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What happens when we listen?

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  1. Take in raw speech and retain phonological representation in working memory
  2. Organise content
  3. Recognise propositions of meaning
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9
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Define working memory

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Short-term memory that deals with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing

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10
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Which structure is an utterance expected to follow?

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SVO, subject, verb, object

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11
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Define garden path sentences

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Sentences that violate syntactic principles and often mislead you

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12
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Define constituent

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A ‘chunk’, where the pauses or emphasis is on a word/sentence

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13
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Define slips of the ear

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Mis-hearing or mis-interpreting what you hear

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14
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What are the 5 typical slips of the ear?

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Single consonant, two consonants, word substitutions, word boundary deletion, word boundary addition

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15
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What can we learn from slips of the ear?

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  • Helps us reconstruct strategies that listeners use
  • Language learning teaching
  • Tell us about historical change
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16
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What influences our interpretation of sounds?

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How we say them

17
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What is the Trace model of speech?

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  1. We divide the signal by time slices
  2. Based on principles of interactive activation
  3. Processing takes place through interaction of a large number of simple units
  4. Each unit interacts with previous unit
18
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What also aids our aural processing?

A

Lip movements

19
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What is the McGurk effect?

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Where the lip movements change the sounds that you are hearing as your brain interprets the visual information

20
Q

What is voice onset time?

A

The time taken from start to end of a stop consonant being said

21
Q

What happens when we hear a vowel?

What helps perception

A

We can perceive it on its own, but not a consonant

Context, Ganong effect, hear the sound that is normal not the one said eg. hear wood not woot

22
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What is co-articulation?

A

Phonemes overlapping with eachother

23
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What affects the phoneme sounds?

A

The sounds that come before and after

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