PSYC 3270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Spectrogram, Phoneme, Coarticulation
10 Jan 2016
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Formants: the frequencies at which peaks of pressure occur, formants = concentrations of energy at specific frequencies, formant transitions. Rapid shifts in frequency preceding / following formants. Units of speech: separate speech sounds into manageable units, phoneme. Phonemes refer not to letters but to speech sounds that determine the. Because different languages use different sounds, the number of phonemes. Meaning of what people say varies across languages. Thus, phonemes are defined in terms of the sounds that are used to create words in a specific language the most basic unit of speech the shortest segment of speech. Would change the meaning of a word (~ each letter) 13 vowel sounds: some vowels can have more than one pronunciation, more vowel sounds than vowel letters. Syllables + words = string (i. e. speech) Although perceiving speech may seem to be just a matter of.
