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The Sound Production

System
When we speak, we push air out of our lungs, up through
How do we our throat, and out our mouth or nose. The vibration of our
vocal cords, along with movements of our tongue and lips,
produce changes the airflow and produces different sounds. Even a
slight change in the position and movements of these parts
sounds? can make a perceptible change in the sound that is
produced.
The Sound
Production
System
All of the body parts that we use
to produce speech sounds are
called the Sound Production
System (the articulatory system).
The most important parts of the
articulatory system:
1. The Lungs
2. The vocal cords (vocal folds)
The Main Articulators:
the pharynx
The soft palate (the velum) :/k/, /ɡ/, and /ŋ/.
The hard palate: /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /ʧ/, /ʤ/, and /y/.
The alveolar ridge: /t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, /l/, and /n/.
The tongue
The teeth :/f/ and /v/, /θ/ and /ð
The Lips :/p/, /b/, /m/, /w/, /f/, and /v/.
rounded, unrounded, or stretched a bit wide
:There are other articulators
./The nasal cavity /m/, /n/, and /ŋ

.The lower jaw

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