✅Anatomy Of Speech Production

Question 1

What is another word for the production of speech sounds?

Answer 1

Articulation

Question 2

What are articulators?

Answer 2

Parts of the speech production mechanism that create articulations.

Question 3

What are the lips made up of?

Answer 3

Tissue, blood vessels, glands, nerves and muscle

Question 4

What is the difference between the upper and lower lip, why?

Answer 4

Lower lip is more mobile and bigger than upper due to position and affected by mandible

Question 5

What is the groove on upper lip called?

Answer 5

Philtrum

Question 6

Name and give examples of the 4 lip positions in speech

Answer 6

Close rounding - ‘too’
Open rounding - ‘caught’
Spreading - ‘keep’
Neutral - ‘butter’

Question 7

What are the three Sections of the pharynx?

Answer 7

Nasopharynx-pharynx
Oro-pharynx
Laryngopharynx

Question 8

What is the velopharyngeal port?

Answer 8

The gap between the oral and nasal cavity

Question 9

What are the 4 points of the main articulator?

Answer 9

Tongue Tips - Apex ( Apical)
Tongue Blade - Lamina ( Lamina)
Tongue Body- Dorsum ( Dorsal)
Tongue Root

Question 10

What is capable of fasted movements of all articulators

Answer 10

The tongue tip

Question 11

What is the oral part of the tongue attached to?

Answer 11

The mouth buy the frenulum ( short in tongue tie)

Question 12

What is the pharyngeal part of the tongue attached to?

Answer 12

Anchored to hyoid bone

Question 13

How is the jaw attached?

Answer 13

Hinged at temporomandibular joint

Question 14

What does the jaw contribute to?

Answer 14

The movement of the tongue and lower lip

Question 15

What is the name for sounds made with the sides of the tongue?

Answer 15

Lateral

Question 16

What is the name of the opening between the nasal and oral cavities?

Answer 16

Velopharyngeal port

Question 17

The following sounds (t, s, n, d, z) are produced with tongue contact at the same place in the mouth, what is it called?

Answer 17

The alveolar ridge

Question 18

What is the name of the small part of the oral cavity that hangs down from the soft palate?

Answer 18

Uvula

Question 19

What is the main articulator in speech production?

Answer 19

The tongue

Question 20

The teeth are involved in the production of which sounds?

Answer 20

F v

Question 21

What are known as the first articulators

Answer 21

The lips

Question 22

What have a complex structure?

Answer 22

Lips

Question 23

The lip muscles have many different what?

Answer 23

Settings in speech and expression

Question 24

How many lip positions are there?

Answer 24

4

Question 25

What is the soft palate also known as?

Answer 25

The velum

Question 26

What is the visible part of the tongue called?

Answer 26

Oral

Question 27

What is the part of the tongue that we can't see?

Answer 27

The pharyngeal

Question 28

What is the tongue tip also known as?

Answer 28

The apex

Question 29

The tongue blade can also be called what?

Answer 29

The lamina

Question 30

What can the tongue body also be known as?

Answer 30

The dorsum

Question 31

What part of the tongue is a pharyngeal part?

Answer 31

The root

Question 32

What is the place of articulation?

Answer 32

Where a sound is articulated

Question 33

What is the manner of articulation?

Answer 33

How the sound is articulated

Question 34

What is a consonant?

Answer 34

Speech sounds that pair with vowels to form syllables and words that involve constriction (closure of the vocal tract)

Question 35

Name what is involved in each place of articulation: Bilabial Labiodental Dental

Answer 35

Both lips Top teeth and bottom lip Tongue and teeth

Question 36

If there are 2 constructions at the same time, what is the place of articulation called?

Answer 36

Labial velar

Question 37

What is complete construction?

Answer 37

The air is completely blocked in the oral cavity, the air is stopped

Question 38

What manner of articulation involves the complete right closure and then a quick release of the oral cavity?

Answer 38

Plosives

Question 39

Plosives create what?

Answer 39

A burst of sound

Question 40

In a nasal stop, the oral cavity is closed, but what else is lowered?

Answer 40

The velum

Question 41

A quick 'r' where there is a single quick closing and opening of the oral cavity is what?

Answer 41

A tap

Question 42

Describe a trill?

Answer 42

A rapid repeated closure

Question 43

Name the 3 parts to a plosive sound

Answer 43

Approach Closure Release

Question 44

The plosive approach is normally what?

Answer 44

Quiet

Question 45

What is a period of either silence (voiceless) or buzz (voiced)

Answer 45

Closure in a plosive

Question 46

What part to a plosive sound is the most noisy and why?

Answer 46

The release because there is an explosive of the held airflow

Question 47

What is a fricative?

Answer 47

When air is squeezed through the articulated making a hiss

Question 48

What is closed when a fricative is produced?

Answer 48

The velum

Question 49

What is a continuous sound?

Answer 49

A fricative

Question 50

What are wide constrictions?

Answer 50

Constructions where there is no contact between the articulators

Question 51

What are the two types of approximants

Answer 51

English approximants and later approximants

Question 52

Where does the air go when a lateral approximant is produced?

Answer 52

The air goes through the sides of the tongue

Question 53

Where is the closure in a lateral approximant

Answer 53

At the alveolar ridge

Question 54

What are affricates a combination of?

Answer 54

Plosives and fricatives

Question 55

What is there a build up of in the nasal cavity?

Answer 55

Mucus

Question 56

What happens if there is a build up of mucus in the nasal cavity?

Answer 56

It makes it difficult to get air out