SHS 375 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH All CORRECT ANSWERS UPDATED
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SHS 375 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH All CORRECT ANSWERS UPDATED
It is much harder to guess the gender of 100 year old person based on his/her speech than a 40 year old person - Answer- true
T/F it is much harder to guess the gender of a 100 year old person based on his/her speech than a 40 year old ...
SHS 375 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH All
CORRECT ANSWERS UPDATED
2024-2025
It is much harder to guess the gender of 100 year old person based on his/her speech
than a 40 year old person - Answer- true
T/F it is much harder to guess the gender of a 100 year old person based on his/her
speech than a 40 year old person - Answer- true
the shape of the laryngeal waveform determines () of the sound - Answer- -timbre
-a 'jagged' waveform (large skewing quotient or small open quotient) represents sudden
changes in airflow (more high frequencies and brassy/pressed timbre)
-a smoother curve (higher open quotient and lower skewing quotient) represents
gradual changes in airflow (a more fluty sound)
breathy voice - Answer- vocal folds are not fully adducted
-can be caused by vocal folds neoplasms (nodules)
-combination of normal voice + aperiodic noise
pressed voice - Answer- vocal folds are tightly adducted (high force)
-results in lower open phase and a lower spectral slope (more high frequency contents)
hoarseness-roughness - Answer- vibration irregularities, typically due to pathology
vocal fry - Answer- very low frequency phonation with somewhat chaotic vocal folds
movement
spectral slope - Answer- how rapidly the amplitudes of successive harmonics decrease
one end closed tube: all waves with resonance frequencies are occurring () and they
are superimposed in the tube - Answer- at the same time
equation for one end closed tube - Answer- fr=(2n-1) x c/4l
source spectrum - Answer- vocal folds can change characteristics of the source signal
such as F0, harmonics, spectral slope
, filter function - Answer- movements of articulators can change characteristics of the
filter function such as the location of resonant frequencies
output spectrum - Answer- characteristics of speech is shaped by characteristics of the
source signal and the filter (vocal folds and articulators)
the amplitude of the damped vocal tract resonance - Answer- decays over time
T/F tubes do not have uniform cross sectional area - Answer- true
perturbation theory - Answer- max pressure= max frequency
max velocity= minimum frequency
T/F there are no unique relationships between articulatory configuration and resonant
frequencies (formant frequencies). However these rules help us to guess (with some
degree of accuracy) the articulatory configurations - Answer- true
narrowband - Answer- higher resolution in the frequency domain (highlights harmonic
structure)
wideband - Answer- higher resolution in the time domain (highlights overall shape of
amplitude spectrum- amplitude spectrum)
theoretical spectrum is estimated based on () - Answer- modeling the vocal tract with a
tube
output spectrum is calculated () - Answer- directly based on the speech output
formant frequencies are based on - Answer- the spectral envelope of the speech output
linear predictive coding (LPC) is used... - Answer- to find the spectral envelope and thus
to find formants
T/F harmonics and formants are not necessarily aligned - Answer- T
its easier (more accurate) to find formant frequencies of males than females or children
- Answer- b/c more space between formants
how does increase in bandwidth of formants affect the acoustic categorization and
perception of vowel sounds? - Answer- -does not change category (identity of vowels)
-it muffles the vowel quality (less sharply tuned)
-more damping in time domain (weak sounds)
-less intelligible
F1 is closely correlated with - Answer- 1. the area of the lower portion of the pharyngeal
cavity
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