LING 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Canadian Raising, Alveolar And Postalveolar Approximants, Logogram
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Ling 111 chapter 2: speech sounds and the english sound system. 2. 2 the organs of speech and the mechanism of sound production. Airflow: there are no special organs for speech, the organs we use are borrowed from other functions, mainly it is the respiratory and digestive systems which aid in speaking, speech production starts in the lungs. Known as pulmonic (usage of lungs) egressive (exhaling) Pulmonic ingressive (inhaling) works but it is not as efficient: sounds can also be produced from other air reservoirs and compressors, types of airflow used in speech: By direction (up or down): egressive or ingressive. By source: pulmonic (lungs); velaric (oral cavity, tongue), and laryngeal (larynx) The speech organs from the lungs to the larynx: the larynx is the key to speech production; it contains the vocal cords, the vocal cords are supported and protected by a set of cartilages. The largest is known as the thyroid cartilage (also known as the adam"s apple)
