Speech, Language, & Thought
Acoustics
Neurology & Respiration
Phonation
Wild Card
100
A theory which posits that language is controlled by thought.
What is The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
100
As the tine of a vibrating tuning fork moves away from its rest position, the force of ______________ increases.
What is elasticity?
100
Neurons that carry impulses from the central nervous system to the periphery of the body are called __________ neurons.
What is efferent or motor?
100
The ventricular folds are also known as the _____ _____ _____.
What are the false vocal folds?
100
In an area of ___________, air molecules are close together.
What is compression?
200
Some language scientists and psychologists believe that the ability to acquire language is innate. Others believe that language is __________.
What is "learned"?
200
The times of a tuning fork vibrate in ________ _______ motion.
What is "simple harmonic"?
200
Relaxation volume is about ______ percent of vital capacity.
What is 40?
200
The arytenoid cartilages are drawn together by the contraction of the ________ muscles.
What are the interarytenoids?
200
If the fundamental frequency of a complex periodic wave is 250 Hz, the frequency of the 7th harmonic of the wave will be _____ Hz.
What is 750 Hz?
300
Learning theorists believe that linguistic ability depends on the establishment of an association between a _________ and a response.
What is a "stimulus"?
300
The number of frequency components in a simple wave (pure tone) is ______.
What is one?
300
Neural impulses are conducted toward the cell body via the _________.
What are dendrites?
300
The vocal folds are abducted by contraction of the _______ _______ muscles.
What is the postedrior cricoarytenoid (PCA)?
300
Broca discovered that speech production is controlled in the third convolution of the _____ _____ left cerebral hemisphere.
What is the frontal lobe?
400
As children acquire language, they master three basic rule systems: ______ rules, _______ rules, and ________ rules.
What are "syntactic, morphological, and phonological"?
400
Waves with more than one frequency component are ____________ waves.
What is complex?
400
Wernicke discovered that the first convolution of the ______ ______ of the left cerebral hemisphere controls speech comprehension.
What is the temporal lobe?
400
During each cycle of vibration, the vocal folds are re-adducted because of the _____________ effect.
What is Bernoulli?
500
The various ways in which a single phoneme can be physically produced comprise the ______ of that phoneme.
What are the "allophones"?
500
The perceptual correlate of frequency is ________.
What is pitch?
500
Neural stimulation of a muscle fiber produces an electrical charge called an ____ _______.
What is an action potential?
500
The rate of vocal-fold vibration is determined primarily by the _________, _________, and _________ of the vocal folds.
What is elasticity, mass, and tension?
500
Increasing subglottal pressure will increase both the ______ _______ and the _____ of vocal fold vibration.
What is fundamental frequency and amplitude?
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