Organ Speech

Articulators can be divided into two types : passive articulators and active articulators.
Passive articulators are organs that do not move during sound articulation such as the upper lip,
upper teeth and alveolum. The active artiulators moves into the passive articulators to produce
sounds. Main artiulators are tongue, uvula and lower jaw (lower teeth and lower lip).
 No. Organ Speech Explaination Sounds Examples
1 Lips -They serve for creating different /lɪps/ -The sound “s” in lips
sounds mainly the labial, bilabial sound “s” because it
and labio dental. end with Voice Sound.
2 Teeth - Responsible for creating sounds /tiːθ/
mainly the labio dental and lingua
dental.
3 Tongue -It is divided into different parts : US or Canada :
tip, blade, front, back and root /tʌŋ/
- Tongue plays important part in
production of almost every speech UK
sounds. Pronunciation :
/tɒŋɡ/ or
/tʊŋɡ/.
4 Alveolar Ridge Alveolar sounds are produced US
through th front part of the tongue Pronunciation :
placed on alveolar ridge. /ælˌviː.ə.lɚ
ˈrɪdʒ/.

UK
Pronunciation :
/ˌæl.vi.əʊ.lə
ˈrɪdʒ/

5 Hard Palate Like the alveolar ridge, the tongue /ˌhɑːrd ˈpæl.ət/
touches and taps the palate when
articulating speech such as /j/.
6 Velum The production of velar sounds is /ˈviː.ləm/
done by placing the back of the
tongue against the velum
7 Uvula -The uvula is used to make guttural /ˈjuː.vjə.lə/
sounds.
- It helps to make nasal consonants
by stopping air from moving
through the nose.
8 Glottis - As the vocal folds vibrate, the US
resulting vibration produces as Pronunciation :
buzzing quality to the speech. /ˈɡlɑː.t̬ɪs/
- Sound production involving only
the glottis is called glottal. UK
Pronunciation :
/ˈɡlɒt.ɪs/

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