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Class - State of The Glottis - Velum

This document discusses articulatory phonetics and the articulators involved in speech sound production. It focuses on two key articulators: 1) The glottis or larynx and its different states of voicing. 2) The velum and its role in producing either oral or nasal sounds depending on whether it is raised or lowered. Diagrams and figures are provided to illustrate the anatomy and positions of these articulators. Examples of sounds are given to demonstrate how they are influenced by the glottis and velum configurations.

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Class - State of The Glottis - Velum

This document discusses articulatory phonetics and the articulators involved in speech sound production. It focuses on two key articulators: 1) The glottis or larynx and its different states of voicing. 2) The velum and its role in producing either oral or nasal sounds depending on whether it is raised or lowered. Diagrams and figures are provided to illustrate the anatomy and positions of these articulators. Examples of sounds are given to demonstrate how they are influenced by the glottis and velum configurations.

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ENG 302

Articulatory Phonetics
 The state of the glottis (Voice box/larynx)
 State of the velum – lowered (nasal) or raised (oral)

 Pull bull
 Ten den
 Cot got
 Fast vast
 Sink zink
Chew Jew
Fig a – voiceless sounds
Fig c – voiced sounds

Larynx – (Voice box)


Peter Roach.

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Figure: front view of the Larynx

Figure: Open and closed Glottis (or vocal folds)

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Four different state of the Vocal Folds/Glottis

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State/position of the Velum (Davenport & Hannahs)
The position of the velum allows us to produce oral or nasal sounds.
The velum or soft palate, is a muscular flap at the back of the roof of the mouth. The velum
may be raised (touching the pharyngeal wall), this position cuts off the nasal tract, or it may be
lowered, this allows the air to travel through the nasal cavity and out of the nose/nostril. When
the velum is raised and touches the pharyngeal wall (Known as ‘velic closure’), the air can flow
only through the oral cavity and out of the mouth. Speech sounds produced in this way are
known as oral sounds; e.g. ‘frog, door, speech’, etc… When the velum is lowered, air flows into
both the oral and nasal cavity, that is, both the mouth and nose, resulting in the production of
nasal sounds; e.g the first and last sounds in ‘man’, the last sounds in the words ‘sing, ten’
etc…
Raised velum – oral sounds
Lowered velum – nasal sounds

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Three nasal sounds in English and Bangla - [m], [n] and [ŋ]

But oral sounds can also be nasalized, especially vowels. E.g [chãd] in Bangla.

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