Question

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Questions

1. What do speech mechanisms produce?

2. Into what four groups are speech mechanisms divided?

3. Why are the speech mechanisms closely connected?

4. What organs of speech belong to the power mechanisms?

5. What is the function of the power mechanisms?

6. How many phases does breathing consist of? What are they?

7. What are the two kinds of breathing?

8. What are the phases of inhalation and exhalation like in ordinary biological breathing?

9. Are the inhalation and exhalation of the same duration in sound-producing breathing?

10. Which is longer?

11. Why is exhalation longer in sound-producing breathing?

12. What belong to the vibrator mechanism?

13. Where are the vocal cords situated?

14. What do we call the glottis?

15. What position do the vocal cords occupy when voiceless sounds are produced?

16. What position do the vocal cords occupy when voiced consonants are articulated?

17. What speech organs belong to the resonator mechanism?

18. Which resonators are fixed and which are modifiable?

19. When does the air pass through the nasal resonator?

20. When does it go through the oral cavity?

21. For the articulation of what sounds is the oral resonator responsible?

22. How is the movement of the tongue reflected in the classification of vowels?

23. Is the position of the lips of any importance to the particular quality of a vowel?

24. What functions do the lips perform?

25. What do you understand by stability of articulation?

Answer 1

Answer:

1. speech is produced by bringing air from the lungs to larynx where thevvocal folds may be held open to allow the air to pass
2. initiation, oro-nasal process, phonation, articulation