SAR SH 522 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Arytenoid Cartilage, Arytenoid Muscle, Vocal Folds

• School: Boston University
• Department: Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
• Course: SAR SH 522
• Professor: Polyak

Document Summary

The structure inferior to the larynx is the trachea. Name 3 paired cartilages: arytenoids, corniculate, cuneiform. True or false: the hyoid is a laryngeal cartilage false! The hyoid is the only bone in the larynx. True or false: we have 2 epiglotti false! there is only one. Name the 2 processes that project from the base of the arytenoid are: muscular and vocal. True or false: the cuneiform cartilages is an extension of the arytenoids. True or false: there is 6 mobile joints in the larynx. False! there are 2 joints in the larynx. Respiration is our energy that we need to speak. Phonation is what gives us our voice. Phonation is the result of our vocal folds vibrating together in the larynx. Phonation means voicing when we are producing sounds we are moving our vocal folds in and out in a stream of air in our larynx. We move them in and out depending on what sound we want.