Articulators
Articulatory Phonetics The production of speech involves 3 processes: Initiation: Setting air in motion through the vocal tract. Phonation : The modification of airflow as it passes through the larynx (related to voicing). Articulation: The shaping of airflow to generate particular sound types (related to manner) Articulatory phonetics refers to the “aspects of phonetics which looks at how the sounds of speech are made with the organs of the vocal tract” Ogden (2009:173). Articulatory phonetics can be seen as divided up into three areas to describe consonants. These are voice, place and manner respectively. Each of these will now be discussed separately, although all three areas combine together in the production of speech. 1) Voice In English we have both voiced and voiceless sounds. A sound fits into one of these categories according to how the vocal folds behave when a speech sound is produced. Voiced: Voiced sou...