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ORGANS OF SPEECH - Coggle Diagram
ORGANS OF SPEECH
CHARACTERISTICS
- Serve as the opening for food intake and in the articulation of sound and speech
FUNCTIONS
- The lips play a role in changing the resonance of different speech sounds
CHARACTERISTICS
- This muscle is extremely strong, as it must move food around in our mouths as we chew
FUNCTIONS
- The most important articulator of speech
CHARACTERISTICS
- Thick fibres of muscle and connective tissue attach the pharynx to the base of the skull and surrounding structures
FUNCTIONS
- The pharynx provides an enclosed space that allows the speech muscles to initiate sound and pronounce syllables better
CHARACTERISTICS
- The larynx plays an essential role in human speech
FUNCTIONS
- During sound production, the vocal cords close together and vibrate as air expelled from the lungs passes between them
CHARACTERISTICS
- Often times tongue tension contributes to a held jaw and chewing muscles wanting to play
FUNCTIONS
- Well known to affect vowel height and also plays a role in the manner of consonantal articulation
6.VOCAL CORD
CHARACTERISTICS
- vocal folds are folds of tissue located in the larynx
FUNCTIONS
- The production of sounds used for speech
CHARACTERISTICS
- The soft palate is very flexible
FUNCTIONS
- The function of the soft palate is to facilitate speech, breathing and swallowing
CHARACTERISTICS
- plate of bone covered by a moist, durable layer of mucous-membrane tissue
FUNCTIONS
- provides space for the tongue to move freely and supplies a rigid floor to the nasal cavity
CHARACTERISTICS
-The coronal aspect of the tooth is composed of the pulp chamber, dentin, and enamel FUNCTIONS
- allowing you to form and to correctly enunciate words
CHARACTERISTICS
- muscle controlled contraction of glottis triggers modulation process
FUNCTIONS
- resonator to give sound the characteristic modulation of voice