COMD 5070 Exam 3 ACTUAL UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
simplifies, large, complex - CORRECT ANSWER - One reason why the study of speech
production addresses the subsystems separately, and in sequential order, is this approach
____________ a ________ and ________ topic.
distortions, hearing impairment - CORRECT ANSWER - Evidence to support the view
that acoustic targets are the main variables for speech comes from _________ in the speech of
people with ___________.
many, stored, all, movement - CORRECT ANSWER - What is one of the theoretical
problems associated with the idea of motor programs?
________ thousands of programs would need to be __________ for _____ the _______ we
make.
do not agree, one - CORRECT ANSWER - The most basic unit of analysis for speech
motor control is: Scientists _________ on _________ single unit of measurement for control.
repeating, differences, articular - CORRECT ANSWER - Motor equivalence in speech
motor control means that ___________ an utterance more than once may involve subtle
_________ in __________ movements.
increased, variability - CORRECT ANSWER - Clear speech typically includes
__________ fundamental frequency ________.
invariant, linear - CORRECT ANSWER - The speech signal is neither ________ nor
________.
categorical perception - CORRECT ANSWER - One type of quantal perception that
occurs as we listen to speech is called __________.
,place, manner, change - CORRECT ANSWER - In the McGurk effect, the __________
and/or _________ of articulation is perceived to ________.
contextual, linguistic, cognitive - CORRECT ANSWER - Top-down processing in the
perception of speech involves using _________, ________, and _________ cues.
motor theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Which speech perception theory has been
criticized as being so vague that it is more of a philosophy than a theory or model?
differences, phonemes - CORRECT ANSWER - Perceptual magnets enhance
___________ between distinct __________.
dominant, decreases, non native - CORRECT ANSWER - Research with infants has
shown that _________ language exposure gradually _______ discrimination of ____________
speech features.
empirical, deterministic, predictive, parsimonious - CORRECT ANSWER - 4 features of
the scientific method.
empirical - CORRECT ANSWER - Based on data.
deterministic - CORRECT ANSWER - Obeys physical laws.
predictive - CORRECT ANSWER - If you do this... then that will happen.
parsimonious - CORRECT ANSWER - Use the simplest explanation possible.
increase - CORRECT ANSWER - Difference Limens ________ with stimulus frequency.
, semitone - CORRECT ANSWER - Each __________ is a nonlinear step
Each step upward is bigger than the last (about 5.9% higher frequency than the one before it).
When we're at the low end of the pitch range, we can hear differences between frequencies that
are really rather small—just a couple of Hz apart. But as we get to the higher end, our difference
limens are greater, and so the increasing size in Hz of each semitone step as we go up actually
matches our auditory perceptual abilities quite nicely.
higher - CORRECT ANSWER - __________ frequency sounds must differ more to be
heard as different in pitch
12 - CORRECT ANSWER - _______ semitones in one octave
equal - CORRECT ANSWER - No two semitones are physically identical (Hz) but
semitones sound ___________ in step size.
fidelity - CORRECT ANSWER - Higher sampling rate gives better ___________.
bigger - CORRECT ANSWER - Higher sampling rate requires _________ files.
More memory usage
More disk space for storage
More processing time for computation
half - CORRECT ANSWER - The "Nyquist" is _______ the sample rate. The highest
frequency you can reproduce.
twice - CORRECT ANSWER - Sample at ______ the rate of the highest frequency in the
signal. For example, data is up to 100 Hz, sample at 200 Hz. Data is to 5 kHz, sample at 10 kHz.
high pass filter - CORRECT ANSWER - Filter that allows high frequencies through and
holds back lower frequencies.
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
simplifies, large, complex - CORRECT ANSWER - One reason why the study of speech
production addresses the subsystems separately, and in sequential order, is this approach
____________ a ________ and ________ topic.
distortions, hearing impairment - CORRECT ANSWER - Evidence to support the view
that acoustic targets are the main variables for speech comes from _________ in the speech of
people with ___________.
many, stored, all, movement - CORRECT ANSWER - What is one of the theoretical
problems associated with the idea of motor programs?
________ thousands of programs would need to be __________ for _____ the _______ we
make.
do not agree, one - CORRECT ANSWER - The most basic unit of analysis for speech
motor control is: Scientists _________ on _________ single unit of measurement for control.
repeating, differences, articular - CORRECT ANSWER - Motor equivalence in speech
motor control means that ___________ an utterance more than once may involve subtle
_________ in __________ movements.
increased, variability - CORRECT ANSWER - Clear speech typically includes
__________ fundamental frequency ________.
invariant, linear - CORRECT ANSWER - The speech signal is neither ________ nor
________.
categorical perception - CORRECT ANSWER - One type of quantal perception that
occurs as we listen to speech is called __________.
,place, manner, change - CORRECT ANSWER - In the McGurk effect, the __________
and/or _________ of articulation is perceived to ________.
contextual, linguistic, cognitive - CORRECT ANSWER - Top-down processing in the
perception of speech involves using _________, ________, and _________ cues.
motor theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Which speech perception theory has been
criticized as being so vague that it is more of a philosophy than a theory or model?
differences, phonemes - CORRECT ANSWER - Perceptual magnets enhance
___________ between distinct __________.
dominant, decreases, non native - CORRECT ANSWER - Research with infants has
shown that _________ language exposure gradually _______ discrimination of ____________
speech features.
empirical, deterministic, predictive, parsimonious - CORRECT ANSWER - 4 features of
the scientific method.
empirical - CORRECT ANSWER - Based on data.
deterministic - CORRECT ANSWER - Obeys physical laws.
predictive - CORRECT ANSWER - If you do this... then that will happen.
parsimonious - CORRECT ANSWER - Use the simplest explanation possible.
increase - CORRECT ANSWER - Difference Limens ________ with stimulus frequency.
, semitone - CORRECT ANSWER - Each __________ is a nonlinear step
Each step upward is bigger than the last (about 5.9% higher frequency than the one before it).
When we're at the low end of the pitch range, we can hear differences between frequencies that
are really rather small—just a couple of Hz apart. But as we get to the higher end, our difference
limens are greater, and so the increasing size in Hz of each semitone step as we go up actually
matches our auditory perceptual abilities quite nicely.
higher - CORRECT ANSWER - __________ frequency sounds must differ more to be
heard as different in pitch
12 - CORRECT ANSWER - _______ semitones in one octave
equal - CORRECT ANSWER - No two semitones are physically identical (Hz) but
semitones sound ___________ in step size.
fidelity - CORRECT ANSWER - Higher sampling rate gives better ___________.
bigger - CORRECT ANSWER - Higher sampling rate requires _________ files.
More memory usage
More disk space for storage
More processing time for computation
half - CORRECT ANSWER - The "Nyquist" is _______ the sample rate. The highest
frequency you can reproduce.
twice - CORRECT ANSWER - Sample at ______ the rate of the highest frequency in the
signal. For example, data is up to 100 Hz, sample at 200 Hz. Data is to 5 kHz, sample at 10 kHz.
high pass filter - CORRECT ANSWER - Filter that allows high frequencies through and
holds back lower frequencies.
