Edmund has a brain injury to the area of motor cortex that affects his lips. You would expect that Edmund's speech perception would be ____.
a. completely unaffected
b. affected for speech sounds affecting the lips and tip of the tongue
c. moderately affected for all speech sounds
d. profoundly affected for all speech sounds
Ques. 2Although the speech sounds we actually hear are made up of a continuum of variation in sound waves, we experience speech sounds ____.
a. categorically
b. morphemically
c. continuously
d. phonemically
Ques. 3Jan hears her brother say, don't forget the ist. Although her brother coughed while saying the last word, Jan is certain he said list. Her ability to perceive ist as the word list is referred to as the ____ effect.
a. continuous perception
b. semantic completion
c. phonemic-restoration
d. phonemic-segmentation
Ques. 4The ____ effect involves integrating what we know with what we hear when we perceive speech.
a. phonemic-restoration
b. categorical perception
c. continuous perception
d. phonemic-segmentation
Ques. 5When confronted with nonspeech sounds, on the other hand, we can perceive ____ sound per second
a. less than one
b. 3 to 5
c. 7 to 10
d. 15 to 20
Ques. 6We can perceive as many as ____ phonemes per second in a language in which we are fluent
a. 30
b. 40
c. 50
d. 60
Ques. 7When decoding spoken language it is necessary to separate the continuous stream of sound into distinct words. This process is referred to as ____.
a. coarticulation
b. discourse
c. segmentation
d. reintegration
Ques. 8Boundaries between phonemes are often not discrete and may overlap. This overlapping of phonemes is called ____.
a. allophonics
b. holophrasology
c. discourse
d. coarticulation
Ques. 9Which level of analysis goes beyond the level of the sentence and can include things like conversations, paragraphs, or even an entire written work?
a. conventionality
b. generativity
c. discourse
d. syntax
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