Prosody
Acoustic properties that are not part of individual speech sounds.
What is prosody?
Complex way that we convert intention into utterance.
What is speech motor control?
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Change in fundamental frequency across a phrase.
What is intonation (f0 contour)?
A narrow statement of expectation.
What is a hypothesis?
Categorization of sounds along a dimension.
What is categorical perception?
Language containing syllables of equal duration.
What is syllable-timed?
The many potential ways the articulators can move.
What are degrees of freedom?
Hear a different phoneme when visual and acoustic cues are incongruent.
What is the McGurk Effect?
The tendency for the fundamental frequency (F0) to decrease over an utterance.
What is f0 declination?
The adjustment of articulators to target more than one speech sound.
What is coarticulation?
Perceive speech based on articulatory gestures.
What is the motor theory of speech perception?
Emphasis placed upon one or more syllables to convey meaning.
What is phrase prominence?
Model that includes both auditory and somatosensory feedback.
What is the Directions Into Velocities of Articulators (DIVA)?
Cognitive effort devoted to understanding speech.
What is listening effort?