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What is speech?

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1) a pattern of movements (face, mouth)
2) a pattern of acoustic vibrations (Hand in front of mouth or on throat)
3) The conversion of language to sound – speech is the motor production of the language system
4) Record the acoustic signal to observe the frequencies

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What is sound?

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  • An invisible disturbance of air, water or solid

- It has no mass or weight

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What is articulation?

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Movement of vocal tract

 - Shape sounds
 - Make changes and posturing to make sounds
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What are allophones?

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Slightly different production of the sound. People who have trouble with aspiration have issues with allophones

  - Say the word "pop"= first /p/ Comes out with more air then the second /p/
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What is simple harmonic motion?

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It’s a simple sine wave.

How molecules are moving. How we send sound through the air.

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What is prosody?

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Rhythm and tonal patterns

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What is phonation?

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-Ability to make sound via your vocal folds coming together and vibrating

  • Production of sound in larynx
    • No vibration = no sound
    • Whisper has slight vibration
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Where does articulation occur?

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Mouth, jaw, lips, tongue

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Where does phonation occur?

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  • Trachea
  • Larynx
  • Vocal folds
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What is pragmatics?

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Language used in social situations

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Where does resonance happen?

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  • Pharyngeal cavity
  • Oral cavity
  • Nasal cavity
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What is Phonetics?

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How sounds are produced and perceived. Analysis of the sounds and their uniqueness

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What lives in the larynx?

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Vocal folds

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What is the purpose of the systems of language?

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The six systems come together to create a dynamic, flexible system in our minds

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Where does respiration begin?

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Lungs

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What is a common medium for sound to travel through?

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Air molecules

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What are the systems of language?

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PMSSPP

  • Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Semantics
  • Syntax
  • Pragmatics
  • Prosody
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What is morphology?

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Word structure

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What is resonance?

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Vibratory response to a force

  -Resonance happens before articulation. Vibration has to occur before movement and sounds are formed
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Phonetic terms are…

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  • phonemes
  • Allophones
  • IPA
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What is inertia?

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The tendency for motion or lack of motion to continue

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What is the larynx made up?

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What is language?

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  • It’s cognitive
  • A ruled governed communication system composed of meaningful elements that can be combined to create novel phrases.

Meaningful elements = words people understand

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What is velocity?

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The speed of an object

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What is acceleration?
The rate of change in velocity
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What occurs during a simple harmonic motion cycle?
- Force - Elasticity - maximum displacement/ zero velocity - acceleration - Inertia is at max at resting point - elasticity - maximum displacement/ zero velocity - Acceleration - Inertia is at max at resting point - Damping
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What is prosody?
Inflection- Rate, stress patterns, intonation, pauses
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What is force?
Something that set something in motion
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What other forms of language are there besides sound?
- Sign language - Written - Picture identification system
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What is syntax?
Order/sentence structure
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What is IPA?
International phonetic alphabet -The alphabet is used to represent the sound system
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What is semantics?
Meaning/word knowledge
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What is acoustics?
- The study of sound - Speech is a continuously changing stream of sound - Monotone - One sound
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What is needed for sound?
1) . Energy or vibrating source/force 2) Disturbance 3) Medium for travel (air) 4) must be audible
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What is the speech production system?
RPRAP - Respiration - phonation - Resonance - Articulation - Prosody
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What is respiration?
Air
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What is damping?
Decreasing amplitude displacement over time.
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What is phonology?
The sound system of language
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Is communication static?
No. Terms change
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What are phonemes?
- Family of sounds. - The smallest unit of sound. - Meaningful by themselves, they affect overall meaning Pat vs bat
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What is elasticity?
The restoring force that causes an elastic medium to bounce back when stretched or displaced
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What is frequency?
The number of completed cycles per second. It is measured in Hz.
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What is a period? | How is it measured?
The time it takes for one cycle to be completed. Measured in milliseconds (ms)
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What is speech dependent on?
Speech production system
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What is a speech sound source?
- Vibration of our vocal folds
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What are the two waves that are talked about when referring to sound
- Longitudinal wave | - Transverse waves
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What is a longitudinal wave? Where are longitudinal soundwaves found?
Particles that moves in the same direction as the wave moves. Soundwaves are longitudinal in both air and liquid
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What is a transverse waves?
Particles that move at right angles to the waves (up & down). An example is dropping a pebble into water
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What is compression?
Air molecules close together as a sound wave moves. High air pressure
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What is rarefaction?
Air molecules far apart as a sound wave moves. Low air pressure
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What creates a pressure wave?
Compression and rarefaction
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For a waveform what is on the X and Y axis?
X = time Y = amplitude
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What is a pressure wave?
Sound. Back-and-forth vibration of particles of the medium through which the soundwave is moving. Repeating pattern

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