PLIC55H3 Chapter 4: PLIC55 Chapter 4

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Articulatory phonetics: the study of how speech sounds are produced. Acoustic phonetics: the study of the pronunciation of speech sounds. Speech has characteristics not found in other forms of auditory perception. Perception of speech is influenced by the context, where top-down processing takes place. Two reasons why speech perception is difficult: distractions, ex. someone sneezing in the background, variability of speech signal pitch, speed, etc. How we can still perceive speech easily suggests that we make adjustments during speech perception. Prosodic factors influence the overall meaning of an utterance: y stress: emphasis given to certain syllables in a sentence y. Intonation: the use of pitch to signal different meanings. The pitch pattern of a sentence is called intonational contour. y rate: speed of speech. The rate of individual words varies depending on the specific sentence. Prosodic factors are sometimes called suprasegmentals, which are aspects of the speech that lie over speech segments, providing a kind of musical accompaniment to speech.

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