LING 1P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Habituation, Pacifier, Human Voice
21 Apr 2017
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Test: 45 m/c: everything uptil lecture 4, everything from lecture. Speech perception: how we somewhat make sense of what hear, do it unconsciously. What counts as speech: not speech sounds in any language: Sneeze, hiccups, coughs: not conveying any kind of meaning. Speech sounds in other languages: different articulation of words. Speech sounds in english, but not in other languages: r, & w, l - most people to not perceive other languages, brain perceives it in the nearest sound they know. Identifying the phomemes (smallest unit of sound) present in the speech signal and: attaching meaning to the sounds we hear; matching them to representations. Sound creates sound waves: a simple sound wave consists of. Frequencies are different because of the way you impede the air flow: the pitch at which your vocal cords are vibrating, basic pitch of voice, harmonics (multiples of f0) Stops some air flow comping out and other articulators enhance the sound (inhibition)
