SLP Praxis - Practice Questions

A _____________ may or may not be a speech sound; the term refers generally to any sounds that can be produced by the vocal tract - Phone The influence of one phoneme upon another in production and perception wherein two different articulators move simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds - Coarticulation _________ are produced when the dorsum of the tongue contracts the velum. Describing consonants this way is according to place - Languageless; Place The fundamental frequency or first harmonic is known as - Lowest frequency of a periodic wave In _____________ speech sounds are modified due to the influence of adjacent sounds - Assimilation Consonants can be described according to - Place, voice, manner ___________ are produced by lowering the velum keeping the VP port open - Nasals ____________ are movements of particles in a medium containing expansions and contractions of molecules - Sound Waves ____________ an electronic instrument that graphically records the changing intensity levels of the frequency components in a complex sound wave - Sound Spectrograph