This document discusses the key speech organs needed to produce spoken language. It identifies the lips, teeth, tongue, alveolar ridge, hard palate, soft palate, uvula, and glottis as the main speech organs. The lips, teeth, and different parts of the tongue are involved in forming consonant sounds, while the alveolar ridge, hard palate, and tongue help produce sounds like /t/, /d/, and /j/. The soft palate and uvula work with the throat and lungs to create guttural sounds, and the vocal folds and glottis enable voicing and sounds like /h/ when they vibrate.

1. Ma. Martha Manette A. Madrid, Ed.D.
Professor
College of Teacher Education
Panpacific University North Philippines
Urdaneta City, Pangasinan, Philippines
martzmonette@yahoo.com

2. Besides a brain (and the knowledge of the
language), what do you need to use the
spoken language?
These are the speech organs.

3. Lips
- they serve for creating different sounds -
mainly the labial, bilabial (e.g. /p/, /b/,
/m/, /hw/, and /w/) and labio-dental
consonant sounds (e. g. /f/ and /v/ - and
thus create an important part of the
speech apparatus.

4. Upper Lip
Lower Lip

5. - small whitish structures found in
jaws
- responsible for creating sounds
mainly the labio-dental (e.g. /f/ and
/v/and lingua-dental (e.g. /ð/and /θ/)

6. Teeth

7. tongue
- with its wide variety of possible
movements, it assists in forming the
sounds of speech.

8. Back
Middle(Dorsum)
Front(Blade)
Tip(Apex)
TONGUE

9. Alveolar ridge
- hard ridge behind the upper front
teeth. It is between the roof of the
mouth and the upper teeth.

10.  For the sound /s/, air from the lungs
passes continuously through the mouth,
but the tongue is raised sufficiently close
to the alveolar ridge (the section of the
upper jaw containing the tooth sockets) to
cause friction as it partially blocks the air
that passes.

11. Alveolar Ridge

12. Hard palate
 a thin horizontal bony plate of the skull,
located in the roof of the mouth.
 the interaction between the tongue and
the hard palate is essential in the
formation of certain speech sounds,
notably /t/, /d/, and /j/.

13. Hard Palate

14. Velum (soft palate)
- it should have holes forming that function
during speech to separate the oral cavity
(mouth) from the nose, in order to
produce the oral speech sounds. If this
separation is incomplete, air escapes
through the nose during speech and the
speech is perceived as hyper nasal.

15. Velum or Soft
Palate

16. Uvula
- it functions in tandem with the back of the
throat, the palate, and air coming up from
the lungs to create a number of guttural
and other sounds.
- In many languages, it closes to prevent air
escaping through the nose when making
some sounds.

17. Uvula

18. Glottis
 combination of vocal folds and space in
between the folds
 as the vocal folds vibrate, the resulting
vibration produces a “buzzing” quality to
the speech called voice or voicing or
pronunciation.
 sound production involving only the glottis
is called glottal. Example is the sound /h/.

19. Glottis

20. Alveolar ridge
Upper lip
Lower lip
Teeth
Hard Palate
Soft Palate
Uvula
Back
Middle(Dorsum)
Front(Blade)
Tip (Apex)
Glottis
SPEECH ORGANS

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