and exam preparation material
4 systems of speech production - correct answer ✔✔respiratory, phonatory, resonatory,
articulatory
respiratory system - correct answer ✔✔pharynx, trachea, lungs, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli,
diaphragm
Exhalation - correct answer ✔✔passive during quiet breathing (muscles relax & diaphragm
rises)
during speech, we prolong exhalation
phonatory (laryngeal) system - correct answer ✔✔larynx, hyoid bone, thyroid cartilages,
epiglottis (cartilage), vocal folds (complex set of extrinsic, intrinsic and supplemental muscles,
bulk of vocal folds are the thyroarytenoid muscles
Larynx - correct answer ✔✔voice box; passageway for air moving from pharynx to trachea;
contains vocal cords
hyoid bone - correct answer ✔✔U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the
tongue and its muscles.
thyroid cartilage - correct answer ✔✔Adams apple - The wing-shaped plate of cartilage that sits
anterior to the larynx
, vocal folds/cords - correct answer ✔✔complex set of extrinsic, intrinsic and supplemental
muscles
Bulk of the vocal folds - correct answer ✔✔thyroarytenoid muscle
voice production - correct answer ✔✔1. vocal folds are widely separated and larynx offers little
resistance when we breath
2. when voicing begins the vocal folds are brought quickly toward midline
3. the subglottal pressure of air overcomes laryngeal resistance & folds are blown apart
4. results in a drop of pressure beneath the vocal folds and they snap back together: BERNOULLI
EFFECT
Resonance - correct answer ✔✔1. when breathing or at rest, the soft palate (velum) hangs
down
2. when speaking the velum moves up and the muscles of pharynx move in to close off the nasal
airway for production of most English sounds
Articulatory System - correct answer ✔✔Lips, teeth, maxilla (hard pallete), mandible (jaw),
tongue
Phonatory/Laryngeal System - correct answer ✔✔1. Larynx
2. hyoid bone
3. thyroid cartilages
4. epiglottis cartilage
5. vocal folds
6. bulk of vocal folds