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Passive and Active Articulators

Passive articulators include the upper lip, teeth, alveolar ridge, palate, velum, and pharynx. They make little or no movement during speech. Active articulators, attached to the movable jaw, include the lower lip, tongue, uvula, and glottis. They do most of the moving in speech production.

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Passive and Active Articulators

Passive articulators include the upper lip, teeth, alveolar ridge, palate, velum, and pharynx. They make little or no movement during speech. Active articulators, attached to the movable jaw, include the lower lip, tongue, uvula, and glottis. They do most of the moving in speech production.

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Passive and Active Articulators

PASSIVE ARTICULATORS
A passive articulator is the articulator that makes little or no movement during a
speech gesture. The active articulator moves towards the relatively immobile passive
articulator. Passive articulators are often directly connected to the skull. Passive
articulators include:

The upper lip


The teeth
The alveolar ridge
The palate
The velum
The pharynx

ACTIVE ARTICULATORS
An active articulator is the articulator that does all or most of the moving during a
speech production. These active articulators are attached to the jaw which is relatively
free to move when compared to parts of the vocal tract connected directly to the
greater mass of the skull.
Active articulators are:

 
The lower lip
The tongue
The uvula
The glottis (larynx)
 
Define Vowel
 A vowel is a speech sound made with your mouth open and your tongue in the
middle of your mouth, not touching your teeth or lips.
 A vowel is a letter representing a speech sound made with the vocal tract open,
specifically the letters A, E, I, O, U.

Classifications of Vowels are:

There are 20 Vowel Sounds in English


12 Monophthongs- Long and Short Vowels (Explain with examples)
8 Dipthongs

/aʊ/ as in “Town”
/aɪ/ as in “Light”
/eɪ/ as in “Play”
/eə/ as in “Pair”
/ɪə/ as in “Deer”
/oʊ/ as in “Slow”
/ɔɪ/ as in “Toy”
/ʊə/ as in “Sure”
(Explain with examples)

Define Consonant
 A speech sound produced by human beings when the breath that flows out
through the mouth is blocked by the teeth, tongue, or lips.
 A consonant is a sound that is made by blocking air from flowing out of the
mouth with the teeth, tongue, lips or palate.
 Consonants are letters representing a speech sound with a closure of the vocal
tract.

Classifications of Consonants are:

1. The place of articulation


2. The manner of articulation
3. The sound is voiced and voiceless
(Explain with examples)

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