EXAMB
Full name: DNI:
Telephone number: PEC submitted: yes noO
A. Theory: Tick the correct answer (2’5/10 points, 0’4 each)
1. Waves with more than one frequency component are waves.
a) simple 0 b)singleO c)complexO d) compound 0
2. Indicate on which spectrogram(s) you can better see the harmonics of
the glottal source on the one hand, and formants of the vocal tract on the
other.
a) narrow/wide 0 b) narrow/narrow 0
c) wide/narrow d) wide/wide 0
3. | In theory, the main visible acoustic cues for the perception of place in
stops are the transitions to and from the neighboring vowels.
arid b)F20 co) F30 qd)F40
4. The vowel ____ is characterized by a low first formant frequency.
a) /e/O b) /a/ ¢) /i/ d) /e/O
5. Intonation can be defined as the changes in the. during the
course of an utterance.
a) mid harmonics 0 b) higher harmonics 0
c) formants 0 d) fundamental frequency 0
B. Choose one of the questions: (2'5/10 points)
Answer length: Half a page at most (around 300 words)
6a. Forensic Phonetics: Explain how a phonetic profile of an unknown
speaker based on a speech sample is determined.
or
6b. Clinical Phonetics: \dentify the main pathologies that affect the ability of
linguistic communication.C. Practice: Analyse the spectrogram of the utterance Fake news!
(pronounced |ferk nju:z|) (see next page) by carrying the following
tasks (5/10 points without PEC, 3/10 with PEC):
1. Write the phonetic annotation aligned with the spectrogram so as to
show sound division.
2. Indicate the acoustic cues available in the spectrogram that help identify
the five highlighted sounds in terms of manner of articulation and voicing,
and place of articulation (optional for consonants). Diphthongs are
considered a single unit.
3. Describe the pitch contour (movements of FO -indicating the maximum
pitch value, if possible-, and effects of accentuation on pitch contour).