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Acoustics
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Speech-Language Pathology
Undergraduate 3
12/16/2014

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Term
What factors determine the way an object will vibrate?
Definition
Mass, elasticity, resistance
Term
More massive objects vibrate at ___ frequencies
Definition
lower
Term
Elasticity/Stiffness: Stiffer objects vibrate at ___ freqs
Definition
higher
Term
Resistance: With more friction, ___ amplitude and ____ duration of free vibration
Definition
decrease ; shorter
Term
Sound must have:
A vibrating ______
A _______ through which it travels
Definition
source ; medium
Term
frequency is Measured in ____
Definition
hertz
Term
frequency has an Inverse of ___ and ____
Definition
period ; wavelength
Term
A sine wave has energy at ____ freq(s)
Definition
1
Term
Description of where in the cycle the vibration is at.
Definition
phase
Term
phase is Measured in ___
Definition
degrees
Term
____ Phase = phase value at time 0
Definition
onset
Term
how many degrees in one phase cycle?
Definition
360
Term
Strength or size of displacement is called:
Definition
amplitude
Term
Intensity decreases as a function of the square of ____ from a sound source
Definition
distance
Term
distance ____ as density ____.
Definition
increases ; decreases
Term
Vibration travels through object (new medium)
Definition
transmission
Term
Bouncing off an object
Definition
reflection
Term
Bending around object
Definition
diffraction
Term
simple Simple = Sine wave = energy at ____ frequency.
Definition
1
Term
Complex sound = energy ____ than 1 freq.
Definition
more than
Term
_______ = sounds that repeat a pattern of amplitude changes on a regular time interval.
Definition
periodic
Term
_______ = sounds that don’t repeat regularly
Aka, noise
Definition
aperiodic
Term
Harmonic sounds = complex sounds with energy at frequencies that are all integer mulitples of some _______ frequency.
Definition
fundamental
Term
how does a harmonic series work?
Definition
250, 500, 750 and 1000 Hz (x2, x3, x4)
208, 416, 624 and 832 Hz (x2, x3, x4)
Term
Waveform = _______ (y-axis) as a function of ______ (x-axis)
Definition
amplitude/time
Term
______ _______ = phase as a function of freq.
Definition
phase spectrum
Term
Spectogram = _____ as a function of time with ____ shown as color intensity.
Definition
frequency ; amplitude
Term
_______ _______ = ampl. as a function of freq.
Definition
amplitude spectrum
Term
Incident and Reflected waves interact
Producing patterns of maximum destructive interference = ______
Definition
node
Term
You can have the node and antinode at each end for several different patterns or _____ of vibration, each of these is associated with a different frequency.
Definition
modes
Term
Incident and Reflected waves interact
Producing patterns of Maximum constructive reinforcement = _____.
Definition
antinode
Term
Tubes vibrate with: ____ at closed end
Definition
node
Term
Tubes vibrate with: _____ at open end.
Definition
antinode
Term
Source-Filter Theory for Speech
Source = vibrating ______ _____.
Definition
vocal folds
Term
Source-Filter Theory for Speech
Filter = Resonance of the _____ _____.
Definition
vocal tract
Term
Source-Filter Theory for Speech
Power for the source comes from the ___.
Definition
lungs
Term
What happens when you contract your diaphragm?
Definition
inspiration
Term
Drawn through the remaining distance to closure by the ________ Effect.
Definition
Bernoulli
Term
Laryngeal Muscles partially ____ the folds
Definition
adduct
Term
vocal folds Produce energy at a ____ frequency
Definition
fundamental
Term
vf frequency at
90 to 450 Hz in males
150 to 520 Hz in females
is which register?
Definition
modal register
Term
which register is 35 to 50 Hz?
Definition
Glottal Fry (Pulse register) =
Term
which register is > 400 Hz?
Definition
Falsetto
Term
filter = vocal tract
Modelled as a tube open at ____.
Definition
one end
Term
Constrictions (partial or complete) can be introduced by the ________.
Definition
articulators
Term
These Constrictions alter the amplitude of the source vibrations in different frequency ranges, creating _______, or ranges of frequency with greater amplitude
Definition
formants
Term
Labelled from low to high frequency
Definition
formants
Term
Visible as a darker band in a spectrogram.
Definition
formants
Term
Which have greater sound intensities?
Definition
vowels
Term
Which have greater degrees of constriction?
Definition
consonants
Term
Which tend to have more information carried by higher frequencies?
Definition
consonants
Term
High front vowels have:
_____ F1 values, and _____ F2 values
Definition
low ; high
Term
Low back vowels have:
_____ F1 values, and _____ F2 values
Definition
low ; low
Term
High back vowels have:
_____ F1 values, and _____ F2 values
Definition
high ; low
Term
_____ - associated with noise created by air turbulence at the point of greatest constriction
Definition
fricatives
Term
_____ - associated with complete temporary closure of the vocal tract
Definition
stops
Term
_____ - associate with dropping the velum, and creating low, strong F1 energy and weaker higher formant energies
Definition
nasals
Term
_____ - contains features of both stops and fricatives
Definition
affricates
Term
_____ - contain vowel-like formant transitions and obvious antiformants (nodes)
Definition
glides
Term
Give an example of:
A voiced stop
Definition
b/g/d
Term
A ligual-palatal fricative
Definition
/sh/
Term
An lingual-alveolar nasal
Definition
n
Term
A retroflex liquid
Definition
r
Term
variations in intensity, fundamental frequency and relative duration of syllables are called
Definition
prosody
Term
what reveals complexity of vocal fold movements?
Definition
High speed videography
Term
Spectrography –
______ band: to extract acoustic source info
Definition
narrow
Term
Spectrography – ____ band: to extract filter (formant) info
Definition
wide
Term
X-ray kinematics – reveal _____ of articulators.
Definition
movement
Term
what is it called when sounds are produced consistently?
Definition
acoustic invariance
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