The Production of Speech Sound

3rd Meeting
 Articulatory Phonetics

• The production of sounds as the result of

modification of the muscles in the larynx that
make the air goes through to the vocal tract.
• Oral cavity when the air goes through the
mouth
• Nasal Cavity when the air goes through the nose
• Articulators are the different Part of the vocal
tract
The Articulators
 1. Pharynx

Is a tube which begins just

above the larynx and ended
up into oral or nasal cavity
 2. Soft Palate or Velum
• In the position that allow the air to pass
through the nose and the mouth.
• It can be touched with the tongue.
• The sound /k/ and /g/ is produced when the
tongue is in contact with the lower side of the
soft palate so that we call them as velar
consonants
 3. Hard Palate

• Usually called as “roof of the

mouth”
• When it is in contact with the
tongue, it will produce palatal
sound such as /j/ in “yes”
 4. Alveolar Ridge
• It is between the top front teeth
and the hard palate
• Sounds made with the tongue
touched the Alveolar Ridge
( such as/ t /, /d/, /n/ ) are called
alveolar
 5. Tongue
• It is a very important articulators that can be
moved into many different places and
different shapes.
• It can be divided into tip, blade, front, and
back
Parts of The Tongue
 6. The Teeth
• There are upper and lower teeth which can be
functioned as articulators.
• Sounds made with the tongue touching the
front teeth are called dental.
 7. The Lips
• The Lips are important in speech.
• Sounds which the lips are in contact
with each other are called bilabial
while those with lip-to-teeth contact
are called labiodental.
Place of Articulation
 Vowel and Consonant
Vowel Consonant
• Vowels are sounds in • Consonants are
which there is no produced with a certain
obstruction to the flow obstruction in the
of air as it passes from mouth
the larynx to the lips
• There are short vowels ,
long vowels, diphtongs,
and triphtongs in
English
 EXERCISE 2

• Draw the chart of place of

articulation in English
• Explain your draft narratively
 Thank You

/ θᴂŋk ju /