The Organs of Speech

• nasal cavity.
• lips.
• teeth.
• alveoldar ridge.
• hard palate.
• velum (soft palate)
• uvula.
• apex (tip) of tongue.

The main articulators are the tongue, the upper lip, the lower lip, the upper teeth, the upper gum ridge (alveolar ridge), the hard palate, the velum (soft palate), the uvula (free-hanging end of the soft palate), the pharyngeal wall, and the glottis (space between the vocal cords).

Speech is produced by bringing air from the lungs to the larynx (respiration), where the vocal folds may be held open to allow the air to pass through or may vibrate to make a sound (phonation). The airflow from the lungs is then shaped by the articulators in the mouth and nose (articulation).

Your brain has many parts but speech is primarily controlled by the largest part of the brain, the cerebrum. The cerebrum can be divided into two parts, called hemispheres, which are joined by a band of nerve fibers called the corpus callosum. Your speech is typically governed by the left side of your cerebrum.

The tongue is the most important articulator of speech. This muscle is extremely strong, as it must move food around in our mouths as we chew. Its other biological function is to push the food into a bolus (I prefer the less scientific term “glob”), and then push it down the oesophagus to our stomach.

Organs used for speech include the lips, teeth, alveolar ridge, hard palate, velum (soft palate), uvula, glottis and various parts of the tongue. They can be divided into two types: passive articulators and active articulators. 5.

Speech, then, is produced by an air stream from the lungs, which goes through the trachea and the oral and nasal cavities. It involves four processes: Initiation, phonation, oro-nasal process and articulation.

They move, they block the air and they help us to produce sounds (words, sentences or languages). Simply say that, organs that produce sounds, we call them speech organs. that produce sounds, we call them speech organs. air passes through our mouth and the oral cavity helps to produce those sounds.

1 : the system of speech sounds of a language or group of languages. 2a : the study and systematic classification of the sounds made in spoken utterance.

Hi, Phonetics has three functions: Description(describes how sounds are produced), classification(classifies sounds into consonants and vowels), and transcription(represents speech sounds with symbols). Phonetics has three types/branches: Articulatory, acoustic, and auditory phonetics.

By phonetics is meant the science of speech sounds, their production by means of lips, tongue, palate, and vocal chords, their acoustic qualities, their combination into syllables and other sound groups, and finally quantity, stress and intonation.

Last Edited. January 22, 2020. In Canada, allophone is a term that describes a person who has a first language that is not English, French or an Indigenous language.

English /n/ and its allophones: NOTE: [ŋ] not relevant here because this sound exists as a distinctive phoneme in the English sound system, e.g. in sin vs. sing, ban vs. bang)

Both /n/ and /ŋ/ are pronounced with air coming through your nose, with you blocking the air in your mouth with the front of your tongue for /n/ and the back of your tongue for /ŋ/. …

Allophones. Allophones are the linguistically non-significant variants of each phoneme. In other words a phoneme may be realised by more than one speech sound and the selection of each variant is usually conditioned by the phonetic environment of the phoneme.

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Definition: The allophone of a phoneme that is used when none of the change-inducing conditions are fulfilled. Of a set of allophones, it is generally least limited in where it can occur; also termed the elsewhere allophone.

k, g k occurs between vowels. g occurs elsewhere. The voiced allophones occur between vowels. The voiceless allophones occur elsewhere.