Fleshy, muscular organ inside the mouth.
What is the tongue?
They can be pressed together (when we produce the sounds /b/ or /p/), brought into contact with the teeth (for a sound like /v/), or rounded to shape vowels like "u".
What are the lips?
The diaphragm pushes air up on the lungs and moves air into the voice box.
What is respiration?
A set of hard, bony enamel-coated structures in the mouth.
What are teeth?
This is the major muscle of respiration.
What is the diaphragm?
Vocal folds inside the voice box vibrate and make sound.
What is phonation?
A pair of organs within the rib cage.
What are the lungs?
These close when you speak and sound is created when air rushes through them.
What are the vocal folds?
The mouth, lips, teeth, tongue, and jaw make sounds into words.
What is articulation?
The thin muscle below the lungs and heart that separates the chest from the abdomen.
What is the diaphragm?
Air flows from these, up the windpipe and through the vocal folds.
What are the lungs?
The process of breathing for speech.
What is respiration?
Folds of tissue inside the voice box.
What are the vocal folds?
This is essential for speech. It includes the teeth, lips and tongue.
What is the mouth?
Just before you speak, your vocal folds close which creates sound when the air rushes through your vocal folds.
What is phonation?