Chapter 15-Speech Production


The Vocal Organs
Way cool animation of our Vocal Cords!





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The Physics of Speech
Speech Acoustics

Quiz 1
(in class on Wednesday, you will be asked to give complete answers to 3 of the following 5 questions)

1)What is the most useful function of the vocal cords?
2) What determines the rate of vibration of the vocal cords?
3) What is the Vocal Tract?
4) What are phonemes?
5) What are formants?




Quiz 2
(in class on Wednesday, you will be asked to give short answers to 3 of the following 5 questions)

1) Why does the author make the comment that Musical performance would be difficult if substantial changes in pitch occurred during changes in dynamic levels? (page 113)
2) What is the 'missing fundamental' phenomena presented in section 7.5?
3) What is the difference between Place Pitch and Periodicity Pitch?
4) Do both these theories have validity? Why?
5) What is the difference between Absolute Pitch and Relative Pitch?



 


Quiz 3
(email these questions, you will be aske
d to give short answers to 3 of the following 3 questions)

1) Why do musical instruments need to be tuned?
2) How does one demonstrate Timbre or tone quality?
3) What is Fourier analysis?


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