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One reason why the study of speech production addresses the subsystems separately, and in
sequential order, is
this approach simplifies a large and complex topic
Evidence to support the view that acoustic targets are the main control variables for speech comes
from
distortions in the speech of people with hearing impairment
What is one of the theoretical problems associated with the idea of motor programs?
many thousands of programs would need to be stored for all the movement we make
A coordinative structure is
a group of muscles that works together to achieve an articulatory goal
The spatiotemporal index is designed to measure
the consistency of movement across multiple repetitions of an utterance
The most basic unit of analysis for speech motor control is
scientists do not agree one single unit of measurement for control
The notion that rhythmic jaw movements underlie the syllabic production of speech is part of the
frame theory
Motor equivalence in speech motor control means that
repeating an utterance more than once may involve subtle differences in articulator movements
The following are examples of perturbation methods used in speech research
an artificial palate
delayed auditory feedback
an unanticipated tap on the lip or jaw
Clear speech typically includes
increased fundamental frequency variability
The speech signal is
neither invariant nor linear
When a listener simplifies the processing of the speech signal to smooth out superfluous variability, it
is called
perceptual normalization
One type of quantal perception that occurs as we listen to speech is called