Study Questions: Speech Perception
1. Define: phoneme, morpheme, vowel, consonant, place of
articulation.
2. What is a spectrogram? What are the two axes on a
spectrogram?
3. What does horizontal banding indicate about the underlying
speech sound? About the intentions of the speaker?
4. What is a formant? What does it indicate about the
current speech sound? About the preceding sound?
5. What are the spectral correlates of a fricative or
sibilant? Of a stop consonant?
6. What are experimental results that indicate the basic units of
speech are the phoneme and morpheme?
7. What is the motor theory of speech perception? What
experimental results support the motor theory?
8. What is the McGurk effect?