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Speech organs - Coggle Diagram
Speech organs
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Characteristics: Fleshy and has two parts(top, and bottom)
Functions: For food intake, as well as to alter the resonance of a sound. Example, the shape of your lips when saying /a/ and /o/ are different. Two types of sounds produced are labial, and bilabial.
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Characteristics: Has 4 parts- tip, blade, front, back root. One of the strongest muscles in our body.
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Chacrcteristics: Known as throat in general, where air, food, and water passes through. Has a length of 14-17cm, taking into account biological factors.
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Characteristics: It is a cartilage, is the home to vocal cords
Functions: Controls airflow, and phonates.
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Characteristics: They are muscles, has an opening called glottis
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Characteristics: What makes up the oral cavity are the: tongue, lower and upper lip, alveolar ridge, velum, upper teeth and hard palete.
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Jaw
Characteristics: Hard bones that makes up the framework of the mouth
Functions: Moves up and down, according to the sound we are trying t o produced
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Hard palate
Functions: Supports the nasal cavity, provides a space for the tongue
Teeth
Functions: To enunciate words. Teeths work very closely with other organs such as the tongue to produce desired sound
Fun fact that I found hehe: If uvula is lowered, the stream of air travels through the nasal cavity, making it a nasal sound. If it is heightened or opened, air passes through the oral cavita, making an oral sound.