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Speech Organs

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 Speech Organs

When we make a sound, there are certain verse of our vocal tract. 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.

Oral cavity
Oral cavity is the empty space of our mouth. It helps to produce sounds like, ba pa, tha ka. The
air passes through our mouth and the oral cavity helps to produce those sounds.
There are four cavities:

Nasal cavity
Nasal cavity is simply the empty space in our nose. When we produce different sounds, the air
passes through the nose. So, the empty space through what the air passes we call it nasal
cavity. Example, maa naa.

Pharynx and Larynx

Pharynx is connected to the nasal cavity. It is behind the larynx. And the larynx is simply the
parts of Adam's apple and that parts are larynx. English do not produce much sounds by using
pharynx and larynx so they are very complex to understand. Basically, when air passes through
the lung, the air travels the vocal tract and this pharynx and larynx sometimes wide open or
sometimes they are close. Pharynx and Larynx are different from oral cavity and nasal cavity.
"Describe some of the parts in speech organs"
Articulators
Articulators are basically the organs that take part in producing sounds. Like, lips, tongue or
teeth etc. There are two articulators, one is active articulators and another is passive
articulators.
Active articulators
Active articulator is the muscles inside our mouth. It is movable organs which are principally the
lip and the tongue (tongue tip, tongue blade, tongue front, tongue root). It takes part directly to
produce sounds.

Passive articulators
 There are some organs which are not muscles but bones inside our vocal tract. These bones, we
call them passive articulators. And they are immovable parts which are upper teeth, hard
palate, alveolar ridge, postalveolar region, soft palate and which remains motionless. Passive
articulators do not move because the bones do not move.

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