MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

GIA DINH UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND
FOREIGN LANGUAGES

ESSAY
What are the Articulators?

Instructor: NGUYỄN THỊ PHƯỚC ĐA

Student: HỒ QUỐC TƯỜNG
Student code: 1911060011
Class: K13DCNA01
Subject: Phonetics and Phonology
School year: 2020-2021

Ho Chi Minh City, June 2th, 2021

 GIA ĐINH UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES and FOREIGN
LANGUAGES
Academic Year: 2020- 2021

FINAL TEST

Student’s name: Hồ Quốc Tường

Student’s code: 1911060011
Class: K13DCNA01

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What are the Articulators?

Every one of the sounds we make when we talk are the aftereffect of muscles
contracting. The muscles in the chest that we use for breathing produce the
progression of air that is required for practically all discourse sounds; muscles
in the larynx produce a wide range of adjustments in the progression of air from
the chest to the mouth. In the wake of going through the larynx, the air goes
through what we call the vocal lot, which closes at the mouth and nostrils; we
call the part containing the mouth the oral cavity and the part that prompts the
nostrils the nasal cavity. Here the air from the lungs escapes into the air. We

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have a huge and complex arrangement of muscles that can create changes
looking like the vocal parcel, and in request to figure out how the hints of
discourse are created it is important to get comfortable with the various pieces
of the vocal parcel. These various parts are called articulators, and the study of
them is called articulatory phonetics.

The pharynx is a cylinder which starts simply over the larynx. At its top end it
is partitioned into two, one section being the rear of the oral cavity and the other
being the start of the path through the nasal cavity. The soft palate or velum is
in a place that permits air to go through the nose and through the mouth. The
hard palate is frequently called the "top of the mouth". You can feel its smooth
bended surface with your tongue. The alveolar ridge is between the top front
teeth and the hard palate. You can feel its shape with your tongue. The tongue
is a vital articulator and it very well may be moved into a wide range of spots
and various shapes. Sounds made with the tongue contacting the front teeth are
called dental. The lips are significant in speech. They can be squeezed together
(when weproduce the sounds p, b), carried into contact with the teeth (as in f,
v), or adjusted to create the lip-shape for vowels like u:. Sounds in which the
lips are in touch with one another are called bilabial, while those with lip-to-
teethcontact are called labiodental.