Quiz 3 Review

What is defined as the relations between acoustic signals and speech sounds

• Acoustic phonology

• Acoustic phonics

• Acoustic phonetics

True or false: Vocal fold vibration is the source for vowel production.

• True

• False

What type of consonants involves both the pharyngeal-oral and nasal tubes?

• Nasals

• Vowels

• Stops

• Fricatives

True or false: /sh/ is produced with a mixed source.

• True

• False

A common type of computer software that can be used to produce spectrograms is

(a)  

True or false: The x-axis on a spectrogram represents frequency.

• True

• False

This consonant type occurs in every language

• Nasals

• Affricates

• Fricatives

• Stops

True or false: Vowel formant frequencies are always consistent.

• True

• False

A formant transition is a change in formant frequency as a function of

(a)  

What three ways are consonants described by?