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| What is narrow transcription? |
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Includes details to capture precisely how each sound is produced
It's indicated by brackets [] |
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| What is broad transcription? |
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Tries to capture the speech sounds that make up a word
Indicated by virgules // |
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| Describe acoustic phonetics. |
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| How speech sounds are heard/perceived |
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| Describe physiological phonetics |
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| Is about speech mechanism and how speech sounds are produced |
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| The study of the production (physiology) and perception (acoustic) of speech sounds |
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| The language or speech patter of one individual at a particular period of life |
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| What is the central most important part of the larynx? |
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| It is to keep out foreign objects from entering into the airway |
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| How does the larynx work to generate voice? |
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| It does it by using the controlled pressurized subglottal air passing over the vials folds to generate voice |
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| What is the secondary function of the vocal folds? |
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| What are the average frequencies of a male and female voice? |
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Male = 128 Hz
Female = 256 Hz |
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| Name the three pharyngeal cavities and define them |
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Nasopharynx: extends from the upper part of the nasal cavity to soft palate
Oropharynx: extends from the soft palate to the Hynoid bone
Laryngopharynx: extends from the pro pharynx to the entrance of the esophagus and sits on top of the trachea |
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| Name and describe the 3 resonatory cavities. |
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Nasal cavity: extends from the nostrils to the pharynx
Oral cavity: is the mouth area, extending from the lips to the velum(soft palate)
Pharyngeal cavity: is a tube of muscles & membranes that extend from the epiglottis to the velum ( soft palate) |
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| Phonation is the process of generating ______? |
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What does the respiration system consists of?
Remember the pneumonic device!! |
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Trachea
Abdomen
Rib cage
Lungs
Muscles assiocated w/ breathing
Thorax
There Are Really Loud Men There |
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| What is another word for soft palate? |
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| Will this course cover descriptive or prescriptive phonetics? |
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- Descriptive ONLY
• descriptive phonetics is system of describing how the sounds are made
• prescriptive is mandating correct pronunciation |
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| How many phonemes are used to transcribe American English ? |
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| What is the difference between phonetics and phonics |
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Phonetics is the study of the production & perception of speech sounds
Phonics is the link between speech sounds & printed alphabet |
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| International Phonetic Alphabet |
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| Fanatics is a part of which larger science? |
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| Where is the larynx located? |
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| What are the three parameters used to describe vowels? |
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Jaw height
Tongue carriage
Lip rounding |
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| How are consonants classified? |
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| What is the difference between a monophthong and a diphthong? |
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Monophthong is one vowel
Diphthong is a combination of vowels |
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| What is the difference between a phoneme and a grapheme? |
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A phoneme is a sounded syllable
A grapheme is a written symbol |
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| What is an example of an allophone? |
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| The words tap and Pat the P in those two words are pronounced two different ways |
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| Also known as inspiration is breathing in where the chest expands the diaphragm contracts in the lungs fill with air |
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| Also called expiration breathing out the chest contracts the diaphragm expands |
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