Chapter 11- Music and Speech Perception
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12 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pitch | the psychological aspect of sound related mainly to the fundamental frequency |
| octave | the interval between two sound frequencies having a ration of 2:1 |
| tone height | a sound quality corresponding to the level of pitch; monotonically related to frequency |
| tone chroma | a sound quality shared by tones that have the same octave interval |
| chord | a combination of three or more musical notes with different pitches played simultaneously |
| melody | an arrangement of notes or chords in succession |
| tempo | the perceived speed of the presentation of sounds |
| vocal tract | the airway above the larynx used for the production of speech; includes the oral tract and nasal tract |
| articulation | the act of manner of producing a speech sound using the vocal tract |
| formant | a resonance of the vocal tract; specified by their center frequency and are denoted by integers that increase with relative frequency |
| spectogram | a pattern for sound analysis that provides a three-dimensional display plotting time on the horizontal axis, frequency on the vertical axis, and intensity on a color or gray scale |
| coarticulation | the phenomenon in speech whereby attributes of successive speech units overlap in articulatory or acoustic patterns |
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