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Question 1: What is meant by acoustic characteristics?
Question 2: How are acoustic characteristics generated?
Question 3: Explain what happened? and What does it teach us about perception?
Question 4: Explain how differentiating between /r/ and /l/ and babies classifying vowels relate to speech perception and How does that relate to learning a second language?
Question 5: Let's make some spectrograms! First, let's draw what you would expect the words "asa" and "aza" ("a" as in "pot"). So, draw what a spectrogram might look like for "asa" and "aza" and indicate where the voicing bar is or is not.
Question 6: What would you expect to see for vowels vs. diphthongs? Draw your guess.
Question 7: Draw a voiceless stop and a voiced stop on a spectrogram, and label the 3 features.
Question 8: How might voice-onset time look for the consonants in "apa" and "aba"?
Question 9: Draw a fricative.
Question 10: Are fricatives more periodic or aperiodic? Why?
Question 11: What differentiates nasals?