ling jeopardy final

time

a waveform is a 2-dimensional plot that measures air pressure over _____

compression

sound is a _____ wave

the fundamental frequency

F0 is an abbreviation for this (corresponds to the rate of vibration of the vocal folds in the larynx)

fricatives

this type of segment is characterized by random and turbulent sound waves

the size of the chamber behind the tongue

F1 (the first formant) roughly corresponds to this chamber in the human vocal tract

logogram

the glyph ^^^ representing net, the egyptian word for water is an example of what?

abjad

this is a writing system that encodes only the consonants of a language

acrophonia

letters name begins with that letter itself, ex beta or alpha

rebus

when a symbol is applied to a different word that has similar if not identical sound but different semantics

determinatives

in chinese writing this is when extra glyphs are combined with unit characters to resolve ambiguity that is a result of

code

a regularized system of meaningful symbols

numeric glyph

a unit of writing that represents its corresponding quantity / number

term (ex: 1, 2, one, two)

some symbol signifying a quantity or amount

complex term (ex: 12, 2+2)

quantity of a combination of symbols and is interpreted with a grammar

bigram

a pair of words whose co-occurrence is measurable is called a ___

bottom up

this approach to speech recognition reconstructs messages starting at the phonetic level

top down

This approach to speech recognition reconstructs a message starting with grammatical and contextual information

whole-word and phonemic

____ and __ are two approaches for conveying text to speech

abbreviations

this is a type of digital writing that people use to save time, save space and are usually conventionalized

style

this is a collection of structures (words, phrases) that is appropriate to a particular social setting

ideographic

emoticons and emojis are not phonographic, or logographic but are ___

6.5-7000

how many languages are there

the size of the chamber ahead of the tongue

What does F2 (the second formant) roughly correspond to in the human vocal tract?

numeric glyphs (1…) and the operator signs (+)

which of these symbols encodes semantic info?

parentheses ()

which of these symbols encodes grammatical info

numeric glyphs and operator signs

which of these symbols is logographic in nature

numeric glyphs after 1, the operator signs

which of these symbols is arbitrary

immediacy

which of these is a property that distinguishes spoken lg from traditional (non electronic) written lg

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emoticon