Acoustic phonetics

1. What is acoustic phonetics (p. 183)

2. What is a “waveform” look like? (p. 184)

3. How does the pitch match the waveforms in Figure 8.2? (pp. 185)

4. How do we define “frequency”? What does 220 Hz means to you? (pp. 186)

http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec4/acoust1.htm

http://mail.ntpu.edu.tw/~ckliu

5. How is “pitch” related to “intonation”? (p. 187)

6. What is “intensity” of sound? (p. 187-8)

7. Can you tell the difference between the two expressions on page 190? (Figure 8.4)

8. Spectrographic/spectrums (See speech production and perception)

(pp. 191-216)