Vocabulary
The basic unit of spoken language, such as a, k, th, p, b, and t, which distinguish one word from another.
What is Phoneme?
Listen to someone speak one or two sentences before writing down what you may have heard. Determine if the speaker produced the phoneme accurately, then pronounce the words in each sentence carefully.
What is variability in phoneme pronunciation?
The English Language uses 40 to 45 speech sounds, which includes two things.
What are vowels and consonants?
The observation that different speakers of the same language produce the same sound differently through speaking rate, intensity, dialect, and affect.
What is Inter-speaker variability?
This study showcased people are skilled in using meaning of a sentence to correctly guess the missing word. The researchers used a cough sound at the beginning of the same word while using different sentences.
It was found that the *eel was on the shoe.
It was found that the *eel was on the orange.
What is Warren and Warren (1970)?
When listening to unfamiliar languages, sentences may sound merged without a pause to separate. While it may sound more obvious in familiar languages, in most cases, there is no obviously-sounded pauses, and they happen less than 40% of the time.
What is word boundaries?
The way the pronunciation of a speech sound is influenced by the surrounding sounds in a spoken message.
What is Coarticulation?
In a room with two source of sounds, use one for background noise and the other to listen to speech. Keep the talking at a low volume and then raise the volume of the background noise until the speaker is hardly understandable. Try to listen and see the difference in understanding the speaker with eyes close versus them being open.
What is visual cues and speech perception?
People could use context clues to figure out sounds and words no matter the surrounding noises that may interrupt a word.
What is phonemic restoration?
A theory that humans are born with a specialized device that allows us to decode speech stimili, resulting in processing speech sounds more quickly and accurately than other auditory stimuli, such as instrumental music.
What is special mechanism approach?
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What is speech-is-special approach?
As an argument for phonetic module (or speech module), which is a special-purpose neural mechanism that processes all aspects of speech perception, is this research that asked people to listen to a series of ambiguous sounds, such as a sound halfway between 'b' and 'p,' resulting in the listeners outright hearing b or p.
What is categorical perception?
The human brain records sound vibration generated by someone talking then translates them into a sequence of sounds perceived in speech.
English-speaking adults produces 15 sounds every second, perceiving about 900 sounds each minute.
What is speech perception's auditory system?
A theory that speech perception is a learned ability, where humans use the same neural mechanism to process both speech and nonspeech sound.
What is the general mechanism approach?
This research provided participants a video of a woman's lips pronouncing "gag," while she was saying "bab," leading to the participants reporting than they heard "dad."
What is McGurk and MacDonald (1976) on McGurk effect?
Michael Beauchamp and his colleagues had identified the location within the cerebral cortex that gives rise to the audio and visionary confusion. This region is located in the right side of the horizontal groove along the center of the temporal lobe of the cortex.
What is superior temporal sulcus?