Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Cath McMahon
John Newall
Convenor
Anita Szakay
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MClinAudiology
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
CAUD802 and CAUD803 and CAUD804
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit aims to: provide an understanding of the anatomy and physiology of speech production mechanisms; discuss the acoustic categorisation of speech, and its acoustic and linguistic structure; demonstrate how speech sounds are measured and analysed; and discuss the effect of speech perception and production in hearing and language disordered populations.
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NOTE: Due weeks are based on standard university academic calendar weeks.
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Late Assignment Submission
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Speech Production Quiz | 15% | No | week 3 |
Practicum report | 20% | No | week 7 |
Essay | 25% | No | week 11 |
Exam | 40% | No | exam period |
Due: week 3
Weighting: 15%
This exercise aims to integrate and apply the knowledge that you have acquired throughout lectures 1-5 of this unit.
Due: week 7
Weighting: 20%
This practicum report will be the outcome of the practicum on spectrographs. It will aim to provide students with an understanding of the technique of measuring articulatory changes on formants and harmonics and will demonstrate differences in vowels and diphthongs.
Format: 1,500 words in length, 1.5 or double-spaced, font size 12.
Due: week 11
Weighting: 25%
This assignment aims to evaluate students’ critical thinking and evaluation skills and their ability to critique the literature. Topic to be provided within the first week of the unit commencement.
Format: 2,000 words in length, 1.5 or double-spaced, font size 12.
Due: exam period
Weighting: 40%
The aim is to integrate the theory learned in this unit. This exam will be 3 hours in duration and the dates, times and venue will be announced at a later date.
There is a mix of online, face to face and practica components in this unit.
1 - Anatomy and Physiology of Speech Production 1 | An overview of the physiologic components of human speech production (supralaryngeal, larynx and the subglottal system) and the mechanisms underpinning the neural processing of speech. |
2 - Anatomy and Physiology of Speech Production 2 |
An in-depth overview of the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, larynx and vocal tract. |
3 - Neuro-anatomy of Speech Production & Perception | An overview of the regions in the brain that encode speech and that control the production of speech. |
4 - Source-Filter Theory of Speech Production |
A discussion of the laryngeal source, supra-laryngeal filter, perception of fundamental and format frequencies, format frequency calculation, and effect of changes in the vocal tract length on formants and harmonics |
5 - Acoustic Categorisation and Measurement 1 | A discussion of vowels, consonants, nasal consonants, liquids & glides, fricatives, and the international phonetic alphabet. |
6 - Acoustic Categorisation and Measurement 2 | An overview of the sound spectrograph, interpreting spectrograms and how the spectrograph works. |
7 - Speech Perception 1 | This lecture covers the fundamental concepts of how we perceive speech. It includes acoustic cues, categorical perception and top-down influences in speech perception. |
8 - Speech Perception 2 | This lecture covers linguistic organisation of speech and linguistic cues including phonetic & prosodic features, and linguistic universals |
9 - Speech Perception in Healthy Infants | This addresses the changes in speech perception in infants within the first 24 months of life, highlighting innate versus acquired learning and perception (Speech pathology). |
10 - Speech Perception inHearing Impaired Infants |
Factors influencing speech perception in sensori-neural hearing loss, assessment and variables affecting speech perception and impact of a hearing loss on speech perception and production for a congenital and acquired hearing loss. |
11 - Speech Perception in Hearing Impaired Adults |
This lecture covers speech perception problems faced by individuals with conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, auditory neuropathy. It will also briefly cover speech perception through hearing aids and cochlear implants. |
12 - Speech Perception in Adverse Conditions |
This lecture covers the influence of noise, reverberation on speech perception |
13 - Review |
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