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ABductor (spasmodic dysphonia) - answer-_increased opening of the VF -voice: breathy, pitch breaks ABductor Muscle (intrinsic) (open the glottis & separate VFs) - answer--posterior cricoarytenoids (PCA) Acoustic - answer--frequency/ amplitude/ duration ADductor (spasmodic dysphonia) - answer--increased closing of the VF (slamming together) -voice: strained-strangled, choppy speech ADductor Muscles (intrinsic) (close the glottis & bring VF together) - answer--lateral cricoarytenoi...

A compressed workweek - answer-Improves employee satisfaction A five year-old is probably too young to - answer-Dust shelves a group will often make more extreme decisions than any one member would make independently. This phenomenon is known as - answer-Group polarization A kitchen is fourteen fee long and ten feet wide, but it has an adjoining pantry four feet deep and four feet wide. What is the gross area of the kitchen? - answer-14 x (10+4) A lesson plan calls for students to ac...

Acoustic Phonetics - answer-Measures of speech production you can get from microphone recordings and what they can tell us about the way the larynx was operating and the way the articulators were moving Aerodynamics - answer-Pressures, flows, and resistances involved in regulating our breath stream as we speak Areas of Speech Science Study - answer-1) Acoustic phonetics 2) Physiological phonetics 3) Speech perception As a general rule, a ___________________ increase in intensity is pe...

A row of dominoes falling over one by one is an example of what kind of wave? - answer- A waveform is a graphic representation of a changing shape of some phenomena (a vibration in this case) as a function of _______. - answer- Antinodes - answer- By convention, when we graphically display a soundwave, what does the horizontal X-axis represent, and what does the vertical Y-axis represent? - answer- Calculate the frequency of the soundwave with the period of 6.5 ms. - answer- Calcu...

A constriction in the vocal tract produced closer to the lips than the larynx is said to be - answer-upstream A downstream constriction is - answer-located closer to the mouth A synonym for suprasegmental features is___ - answer-prosody A velar pinch is a coming together of - answer- Acoustically, approximates are ___from vowels - answer-similar Affricates are produced as a combination of a ___ and a ___ - answer-plosive, fricative All nasals are - answer-voiced Alveolar and...

- answer-NEUROLOGICAL FACTORS muscle contraction is inherently unsmooth individual motor neurons 'take turns' firing overall contraction is the net effect of many miniscule twitches vocal fold tension is not perfectly static _________ jitter/shimmer values would be associated with a "better" quaity of voice and _________ jitter/shimmer values would be associated with a very rough/hoarse voice. - answer-Low High "You cannot understand a disorder unless you know...

A home stereo is actually a _________________. - answer-transducer--it converts electrical energy to acoustic energy A microphone is a transducer converting energy from one form, _____________, to another form, ____________________. - answer-sound pressure waves, electrical signal Acoustic Phonetics - answer-Measures of speech production you can get from microphone recordings and what they can tell us about the way the larynx was operating and the way the articulators were moving Acoust...

3D spectrogram - answer-hybrid display (not a time or frequency display) because it is a combination of time and frequency. a) Shows us how the strength and its range of frequencies is changing or evolving over time from left to right along the x-axis. b) Shows frequency changes over time and changes in amplitude of frequency components whether they are weak or strong. 3D spectrogram features. (what are the 3 dimensions) - answer-Time Frequency Intensity 4 features of scientific method -...

affricates - answer-shorter than fricative, longer then stop C to V transition - answer-F1 will increase Difference of pressure from below and above the larynx (pressure below-pressure above) - answer-Transglottal pressure duration of a CV transition - answer-about 50ms fricatives - answer-longer than stops How can we compute an estimate of laryngeal resistance - answer-Measuring the flow with a pnuemotach mask by estimating the subglottic pressure during the closure for "p...

A coordinative structure is - answer-a group of muscles that works together to achieve an articulatory goal A formant is most like which type of filter? - answer-band pass A low pass filter - answer-blocks high frequencies A reduced vowel quality applies to - answer-central vowels A simple, low tech tool for a doctor to view a person's larynx is - answer-a laryngeal mirror A single vertical line on a line spectrum would represent - answer-a sine wave An electroglottograph re...