LING 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Place Of Articulation, Speech Organ, Vocal Tract
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The active articulator is the part of the vocal tract that is acting on the passive articulator. E. g. , /k/ active articulator: tongue, passive articulator: velum. E. g. , /f/ active articulator: bottom lip, passive articulator: teeth. E. g. , / / active articulator: tongue, passive articulator: uvula. E. g. , / / active articulator: tongue passive articulator: alveolar ridge. , , x] is the only uvular one, whereas the others are velar. They are all bilabial except for /f/, which is labiodental a) b) c) Velar sounds and lowering the velum are two different things. Just because a sound is velar, it does not mean that there is necessary velar lowering. E. g. , /k/ is a velar sound, but the velar is being raised, not lowered. Cells that have been blocked off in the ipa chart. Trills requires good flexibility of the active articulator, and the part of the tongue involved in velar sounds is not flexible enough to produce a trill on the velum.
