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The Parts of Human Speech Organs & Their Definitions

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Imagine being unable to verbally respond to a verbal greeting. Thinking about the ability to speak as an important part of your day may not cross your mind. If that speech ability was taken away, you might find yourself unable to communicate not only basic speech but also emotional responses like fear, confusion or anxiety. Although you may not give your speech organs much thought, they are integrally tied to how you function. From the lungs to the mouth, the organs of speech and their function in sound production and speech play important roles in many aspects of your life.

Breathing and Speaking Connections

Looking at the speech mechanism and organs of speech begins with the vital lungs. The lungs are located in the chest cavity and expand and contract to push air out of the mouth. Simple airflow is not enough to produce speech. The airflow must be modified by other speech organs to be more than just respiration. When you exhale, air moves out of your lungs through your windpipe or trachea. At the top of the trachea is one of the other primary organs of speech: the larynx or voice box.

Vibrations of the Larynx

Three more parts of the speech mechanism and organs of speech are the larynx, epiglottis and vocal folds. The larynx is covered by a flap of skin called the epiglottis. The epiglottis blocks the trachea to keep food from going into your lungs when you swallow. Across the larynx are two thin bands of tissue called the vocal folds or vocal cords. Depending on how the folds are positioned, air coming through the trachea makes them vibrate and buzz. These vibrations are called a "voiced" or soft sound. Placing finger tips over the Adam's apple or larynx at the front of your neck while humming makes it possible to feel the vocal fold vibration.

Articulators of Speech

The inside of your mouth is also called the oral cavity and controls the shape of words. At the back of the oral cavity on the roof of the mouth is the soft palate or velum. When you pronounce oral sounds, such as "cat" or "bag," the velum is located in the up position to block air flow through the nasal cavity. When you pronounce nasal sounds, such as "can" or "mat," the velum drops down to allow air to pass through the nasal cavity. In front of the velum is the hard palate. Your tongue presses or taps against the hard palate when you pronounce certain words, such as "tiptoe." Developmental or physical issues related to speech organs that are articulators of speech can result in a need for speech therapy.

Teeth, Tongue and Lips

Say "Thank you." Feel how your tongue presses against the inside of your front teeth. The convex area directly behind your teeth is known as the teeth ridge. For the purpose of linguistics, the tongue is divided into three regions: the blade, front and back. The tip of the tongue, which touches the teeth ridge, is called the blade. The middle of the tongue, which lines up with the hard palate, is called the front of the tongue. Finally, beneath the soft palate is the back of the tongue. The final speech organ is the most visible and obvious: the lips. Your lips influence the shape of the sounds leaving the oral cavity. Each of these organs of speech and their definitions is important to the process of speech, articulation and expressions through sounds.

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The Organs of Speech

There are a lot of organs which help a person speak with proper pronunciation and clarity. Some organs are helpful in differentiating the sounds through articulation.

They act as the main source of energy for speech. It has small air pockets called alveoles in which oxygen is stored. When the air in the alveolus is pushed up, the displaced air comes up the windpipe (trachea) and reaches the larynx. The air passes through the larynx and reaches pharynx. By adjusting the various parts in the mouth different speech sounds are produced before the lung air goes out into the atmosphere either through the mouth (oral passage) or the nose (nasal passage).

It is the protruding part of the throat commonly called Adam’s apple. It is also known as the soundbox of the body.

Vocal cords

They are two elastic strips placed across the larynx facing each other. They are fixed at one end (far end) and free at the other. In the case of normal breathing, the vocal cords are drawn apart leaving a gap between them through which the air passes freely from the lungs. This gap between the vocal cords is known as glottis. Sometimes while speaking, the vocal cords are brought into contact with each other gently. In this position, the air from the lungs pushes through these vocal cords setting them in vibration. Speech sounds that are produced with the vocal cords vibrating are known as voiced sounds, e.g. /z/. sometimes, speech sounds are produced with the vocal cords, not in contact with each other and hence not vibrating such speech sounds which are known as voiceless sounds. E.g. /s/

Glottal Stop /p/

It happens when the vocal cords are brought into contact with each other rather firmly and thus stopping the air from passing through them.

The two lips are flexible organs of speech. They can combine with each other to produce certain sounds, e.g. /p, b/. sometimes the lower lip can combine with upper front teeth to produce certain sounds, e.g. /f, v/

The Roof of the Mouth

It consists of the upper front teeth, alveolar ridge, palate or hard palate and soft palate.

The upper front teeth are fixed part of speech. The upper front teeth can combine with the lower lip to produce some sounds like /f, v/. they can also combine with the tongue to produce certain sounds like /ð/ as in this, either, θ as in thing, myth .

Alveolar Ridge

It is a hard, bulging, bony part found immediately behind the upper front teeth. This can combine with the tongue to produce certain sounds like /l, t, n/

It is also known as a hard palate.it is the hard-concave part of the roof of the mouth. Sometimes it can combine with the tongue to produce certain sounds, e.g. /j/

Soft Palate

It is soft, loosely hanging, the fleshy part after the hard palate. This can be in 3 positions.

  • In between the wall of the mouth and back of the tongue. This is the position of the soft palate in the case of normal breathing. This position is also known as a neutral position. It can be raised sufficiently to be in firm contact with the wall of the mouth.  Then the nasal passage is completely blocked, and all the lung air passes out only through the oral passage (mouth).
  • It can also be lowered sufficiently to be in firm contact with the back of the tongue. Thus, the oral passage is completely locked and all the air from the lung passes out only through the nasal passage (nose).
  • Certain sounds are produced with soft palate and the tongue combining with each other. E.g. /k, g/. the tip of the soft palate is called vellum.

It is the most flexible part; the prime organ of speech. The tongue is divided into 4 parts namely, the tip, the blade, the front, and the back. The tip of the tongue can move in the direction of the back part of the upper front teeth in the production of certain sounds. / ð, θ/

It can combine with the alveolar ridge to produce certain sounds, /t, s, n/

The front of the tongue can combine with the hard palate to produce certain sounds, /I, i:, j/

The back of the tongue combines with the soft palate to produce certain sounds, /k/.

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speech organ, vocal organ, organ of speech noun

any of the organs involved in speech production

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A speech organ is any part of the human body that contributes to the production of speech. This can include structures such as the lungs, vocal cords, tongue, teeth, lips, palate, nasal cavity and various other parts of the throat. These organs work together to create different sounds that form words and sentences in spoken languages.

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Speech organs produce the many sounds needed for language. Organs used include the lips, teeth, tongue, alveolar ridge, hard palate, velum, uvula and glottis. Speech organs—or articulators—are of two types: passive articulators and active articulators. Passive articulators remain static during the articulation of sound. Upper lips, teeth, alveolar ridge, hard palate, soft palate, uvula, and pharynx wall are passive articulators. Active articulators move relative to these passive articulators to produce various speech sounds, in different manners. The most important active articulator is the tongue. The lower lip and glottis are other active articulators.

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  • A bladder-like structure.
  • Made of alveolic.
  • Air passes to lungs through trachea.
  • Muscles of the lungs expand and contract for ingression or egression.
  • The lung air stream is called pulmonic air stream mechanism.
  • Pulmonic air stream: 1. Aggressive. 2. Ingressive.
  • Aggressive air stream produces speech sounds.
  • Ingressive air stream produces non-linguistic sounds.

Organsof speech with Diagram: Larynx:

  • Placed right behind the Adam’s apple.
  • It is mostly called Sound Box.
  • Vocal cords are the main organs of larynx.
  • Vocal cords are held together – Arytenoids Cartilages (Vocal cords’ structure name).
  • Vocal cords are wide – air passes freely. (Example: /f, s/)
  • Vocal cords are combined – air can’t pass freely, there is vibration.
  • Vibration in cords – voiced sounds are produced.
  • No vibration in cords – voiceless sounds are produced.
  • Opened vocal cord is called Glottis.
  • In different states of glottis – several sounds are produce.
  • Types of glottis – voiced, voiceless, murmur and creaky voice

Organsof speech with Diagram: Pharynx:

Ø   A tube-like structure with two ends.

Ø   One ends goes to the mouth – Oral cavity.

Ø   Other end goes to the nose – Nasal cavity.

Ø   Opening / Closing of pharynx managed by – Velum / Soft palate.

Ø   Full region of pharynx – Vocal tract.

Ø   Organs of oral cavity – Upper jaw, lower jaw, palate.

Ø   Oral cavity also contains tongue. A tongue has five parts: tip,blade, front, middle and back.

Ø   Nasal cavity – A blank structure.

Ø   Two openings in the Nasal cavity – Nostrils.

* See the diagram of Pharynx in the upper side of this text.

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Last month, city officials said that the destruction had caused the cost of the facility, which had been estimated at $90 million, to jump by nearly $20 million.

“These individuals are trafficking in fear,” John F. King, Georgia’s insurance and safety fire commissioner , said in a recent news conference announcing rewards of up to $200,000 for help finding and convicting arson suspects.

When Georgia lawmakers strengthened the state’s domestic terrorism laws, it was in part a response to the racist massacre in 2015 at a Black church in Charleston, S.C. The point, they said at the time, was to empower prosecutors to charge perpetrators of racist attacks as domestic terrorists. Georgia lawmakers are currently considering another measure to bolster its law further.

Like Georgia, other states have also moved to expand terrorism-related laws, reflecting an increasingly fractured political climate and fears of rising extremism. A bill in West Virginia would clarify definitions of terrorism and create mandatory sentencing rules.

Last year, Oregon — where the authorities have had showdowns with armed militias on public land, and where far-right demonstrators breached the State Capitol in 2021 — became the latest state to enact a domestic terrorism law.

Officials in Georgia have used the expanded law to target left-wing activism that, they argue, took a violent turn in Atlanta around the time of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

One of the demands in the nationwide protests that followed the murder of George Floyd was to strip funding away from police departments and redirect those resources. The Cop City protesters see Atlanta as doing the opposite with the training center, which officials have hailed as an investment in a police force struggling with depleted ranks and morale.

“We don’t need more police and more of a surveillance state,” said Ayla King, 19, a recent high school graduate from Worcester, Mass., who traveled to Atlanta last March after following the developments on social media. Mx. King, who uses the they pronoun, faces both domestic terrorism and racketeering charges.

Mr. Bilodeau, who spent 17 days in jail after the confrontation last March, declined to discuss what he did in the forest in March, pointing to his impending trial. In charging documents, prosecutors accused him of criminal trespass and of joining “an organized mob designed to overwhelm the police force,” occupy the forest and cause property damage.

He returned to a life in Boston that was upended. His bank closed his accounts, he said. The youth art and music program where he had been a regular volunteer told him he was no longer welcome. His anxiety about the police seeped into his dreams, and he is wary of participating in any more protests.

“This has been just a crushing emotional and legal process, and we’re not really in the thick of things yet,” Mr. Bilodeau said.

Mx. King has had to set aside plans for college.

“This is terrifying,” Mx. King said in an interview in December, before a gag order was issued in their case. “But it’s really important to stay strong and just know that, just because the state says that I’m a domestic terrorist, it doesn’t mean anything, really. It’s such an inflated charge.”

Still, Mx. King has no illusions about the gravity of the situation. In fact, they recently had a stark reminder of the stakes: They declined a plea offer of a 10-year sentence that included three years in prison.

Audio produced by Jack D’Isidoro .

Rick Rojas is a national correspondent covering the American South. He has been a staff reporter for The Times since 2014. More about Rick Rojas

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  1. Speech organ Definition & Meaning

    speech organ: [noun] any of the organs (such as the larynx, tongue, or lips) playing a part in the production of articulate speech.

  2. The Parts of Human Speech Organs & Their Definitions

    Three more parts of the speech mechanism and organs of speech are the larynx, epiglottis and vocal folds. The larynx is covered by a flap of skin called the epiglottis. The epiglottis blocks the trachea to keep food from going into your lungs when you swallow. Across the larynx are two thin bands of tissue called the vocal folds or vocal cords.

  3. Speech organ

    speech organ: 1 n any of the organs involved in speech production Synonyms: organ of speech , vocal organ Types: show 6 types... hide 6 types... articulator a movable speech organ glottis the vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated larynx , voice box a cartilaginous ...

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  5. SPEECH ORGAN definition and meaning

    Anatomy an organ involved in speech production, such as the tongue.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.

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    Encoding is a mental and psychological process. Cerebral commands are sent to the vocal organs which are involved in the transmission of speech ( Figure 1 ). These organs, in their turn, transmit speech in the form of sound waves through the air. After the message has been encoded and transmitted, it has to be received and decoded by the listener.

  7. Speech

    Speech is the faculty of producing articulated sounds, which, when blended together, form language. Human speech is served by a bellows-like respiratory activator, which furnishes the driving energy in the form of an airstream; a phonating sound generator in the larynx (low in the throat) to transform the energy; a sound-molding resonator in ...

  8. Speech organ Definition & Meaning

    Speech organ definition, any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech. See more.

  9. SPEECH ORGAN definition in American English

    SPEECH ORGAN definition: an organ involved in speech production , such as the tongue | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples in American English

  10. Larynx

    Larynx. The larynx ( / ˈlærɪŋks / ), commonly called the voice box, is an organ in the top of the neck involved in breathing, producing sound and protecting the trachea against food aspiration. The opening of larynx into pharynx known as the laryngeal inlet is about 4-5 centimeters in diameter. [1]

  11. Larynx (Voice Box): Anatomy & Function

    Speech therapy. Heliox (a combination of oxygen and helium). Tracheostomy. A provider may do this procedure if vocal cord dysfunction keeps air from getting to your lungs. Vocal cord lesions. Treatment depends on the underlying cause but may include: Voice therapy. Help with lifestyle changes that may reduce your risk of vocal cord lesions ...

  12. Larynx: Location, anatomy, function, and more

    Summary. The larynx is a small structure of cartilage that connects the throat to the windpipe. It is located in the front of the neck and houses the vocal cords, producing speech sounds and ...

  13. Phonetics

    phonetics, the study of speech sounds and their physiological production and acoustic qualities. It deals with the configurations of the vocal tract used to produce speech sounds (articulatory phonetics), the acoustic properties of speech sounds (acoustic phonetics), and the manner of combining sounds so as to make syllables, words, and ...

  14. Articulation

    articulation, in phonetics, a configuration of the vocal tract (the larynx and the pharyngeal, oral, and nasal cavities) resulting from the positioning of the mobile organs of the vocal tract (e.g., tongue) relative to other parts of the vocal tract that may be rigid (e.g., hard palate). This configuration modifies an airstream to produce the sounds of speech.

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    Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term is used in the context of the following news items. eva kotatkova oxford Actors 'trapped' in. «Speech organ» Speech organs produce the many sounds needed for language. Organs used include the lips, teeth, tongue, alveolar ridge, hard palate, velum, uvula and ...

  16. Speech organ

    Noun. 1. speech organ - any of the organs involved in speech production. organ of speech, vocal organ. organ - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function. articulator - a movable speech organ.

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  18. PDF 1.6. the Organs of Speech

    The immovable organs of speech are called passive. They are: the upper jaw, the alveoli, the teeth and the hard palate. The tongue is the main organ of producing speech sounds - consonants and vowels, and speech in general. The mouth cavity, the pharynx and the nasal cavity serve as resonance chambers. The main organ of hearing is the ear ...

  19. The Organs of Speech

    Lungs. They act as the main source of energy for speech. It has small air pockets called alveoles in which oxygen is stored. When the air in the alveolus is pushed up, the displaced air comes up the windpipe (trachea) and reaches the larynx. The air passes through the larynx and reaches pharynx. By adjusting the various parts in the mouth ...

  20. What does speech organ mean?

    Definition of speech organ in the Definitions.net dictionary. Meaning of speech organ. Information and translations of speech organ in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web.

  21. Organ of speech

    organ of speech: 1 n any of the organs involved in speech production Synonyms: speech organ , vocal organ Types: show 6 types... hide 6 types... articulator a movable speech organ glottis the vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated larynx , voice box a cartilaginous ...

  22. Organs of Speech with diagram

    The organs involved in the production of speech can be divided into three groups: 1. The respiratory system- lungs, muscles, trachea. 2.The phonetary system- larynx, vocal cords. 3. The articulatory system- nose, mouth, tongue, teeth, lips. Lungs: It is a bladder-like structure which is made up of alveolic.

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    Speech organs synonyms, Speech organs pronunciation, Speech organs translation, English dictionary definition of Speech organs. Noun 1. speech organ - any of the organs involved in speech production organ of speech, vocal organ organ - a fully differentiated structural and functional...

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  27. 'Cop City' Prosecutions Hinge on a New Definition of Domestic Terrorism

    As Mr. Bilodeau saw it, he was taking a principled stand against the destruction of the forest. But prosecutors had a darker take: They charged Mr. Bilodeau and 22 others with domestic terrorism.