Exam 1

Question 1

What is the “message” of speech?

Answer 1

1. Semantic content
2. Speaker’s attitude
3. Indexical information: sex, age, health, mood

Question 2

Conversion model of thought to speech

Answer 2

1. Thought (ideas, experiences, attitudes)
   to
2. Language (syntactic rules, semantics, morphophonological rules)
   to
3. Timing and Prosody to Buffer
   to
4. Speech (myomotor rules, neuromotor rules, and articulatory rules)
   to
5. Sound

Question 3

Speech Chain

Answer 3

Linguistic level -> Physiological level -> Acoustic level -> Physiological level -> Linguistic level

Question 4

Observation Domain I

Answer 4

Neural Processes (EEG, MEG, MRI)

Question 5

Observation Domain II

Answer 5

Neuro-muscular processes (EMG)

Question 6

Observation Domain III

Answer 6

Articulation (Production)

Question 7

Observation Domain IV

Answer 7

Acoustic Signal

Question 8

Observation Domain V

Answer 8

Auditory System (the physiological and neurological foundation of perception)

Question 9

Observation Domain VI

Answer 9

Stimulus Transformation (psychoacoustics, pscycho-phonectics, Speech perception)