Speech Sound Disorders- Test 2 Flashcards
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What is speech perception important for?
Speech therapy, AAC, second language learners, text-to-speech, computer speech recognition, cell phone, Internet, communication technology, hearing aid technology, cochlear implant
Why study speech perceptions?
Speech is a natural mode of communication
-Insight to speech production
-Speech perception basic to what it means to be human
Speech links 2 brains efficiently and reliably: no perception=no meaning
Better understanding of the brain
Basic issues in speech perception
General auditory perception vs. categorical
Acoustic-phonetic variance
Units of representation not external
Development of speech perception theories
Practical implications of theory
Describe acoustic-phonetic invariance.
Theory from the 50s that acoustic qualities of a speech sound couldn’t be different.
Describe the development of speech perception theories.
Motor speech perception to internal representation of the sound is the same
What are the practical implications of speech perception theories?
Describes the relationship between perception and production.
Describe general auditory perception.
Hearing in general. Increased frequency= increased pitch
Describe categorical perception.
Hear the phonemes discretely
Hear either one phoneme or another
One way to discriminate is by voice onset time
- show rapid change in identification of the phoneme
-shows discrete ability to discriminate between phonemes
What did Gierut, Morrisette, and Ziemer discuss?
Nonwords vs. real words used for therapy targets and generalizability
What are some reasons to choose real word stimuli?
Practice hearing, sampling, practicing, and engaging in processing a variety of linguistic and articulatory information about real words
Leads to expanded phonemic and phonetic inventories, improved intelligibility, and enhanced communication
What are some reasons to choose nonwords?
Reduce processing demands, facilitate automaticity, reduce interference from known words to promote carryover
What are nonwords?
Novel, phonetically permissible sound strings affiliated with referents
Describe the generalization of nonwords.
Immediate post treatment, greater than on RW generalization, but RW generalization occurred more during the 55days post whereas the NW tended to stay still
Define lexical configuration.
Assembly of words, phonemic composition, syllable structure, meaning, and/or orthographic representation
Define lexical engagement.
How a word becomes an embedded representation in the mental lexicon fully able to function and interact with other lexical entries
According to Gierut et al., what is the benefit of using NW?
NW bring phonological properties to the forefront- may jump start/ facilitate the learning process, but then followed by inhibition caused by interference of other words
Describe one factor that could have influenced the generalization trend of the RW and NW after 55 days.
NWs suffering from interference of other words in its lexicon
RWs may have a slower, but more progressive rate of generalization of speech sounds to other words
Who wrote the Lexical Organization and Phonological Change in Treatment article?
Morrisette and Gierut
What are the 5 parameters Morrisette and Gierut discussed that are used to organize words in a mental lexicon?
Articulatory and acoustic factors, perception, learning, metalinguistic, and psycholinguistic
Define neighborhood density.
Number of words that a minimally different in phonetic structure from a given word
Define word frequency.
Number of times a word appears in a language
What was the purpose of the article written by Morrisette and Gierut on lexical organization and phonological change in treatment?
Determine if properties of lexical organization differentially influence productive sound change in treatment
What were the independent variables in the Morrisette and Gierut article?
Word frequency and neighborhood density
What were the four experimental groups from the Morrisette and Gierut article?
High frequency, low frequency, high density, low density?