Researchers Studying __________ Are Most Likely to Make Use of a Speech

question 5

Multiple Choice

Researchers studying __________ are most likely to make use of a speech spectrogram.

• A) sociolinguistics
• B) acoustic phonetics
• C) articulatory phonetics
• D) phonology

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Definitions:

Continental Collision

An event occurring when two continental plates converge, leading to mountain building, earthquakes, and other geologic phenomena.

Descending Plate

In plate tectonics, a slab of the Earth's lithosphere that is moving downward into the mantle at a convergent boundary.

Decreasing Pressure

A reduction in the force exerted by a fluid (gas or liquid) on a surface.

Partial Melting

the process where only a portion of a solid is melted, which often occurs in the Earth's mantle.