Articulation -Facial Bones Flashcards
What is articulation
The process of joining two components together
Mobile and immobile stuctures brought together into contact for the purpose of producing speech
Articulators are one group, bones are another
Bones articulate with one another
Source filter theory
Voicing source is generated by the vocal folds, directed though the vocal tract where it is shaped into the sounds of speech
Vocal folds produce quasi periodic tone
Frequency decreases as volume increases
Resonant frequencies govern our perception of vowel
What is resonant frequency
Frequency of sound to which the cavity most effectively responds, which is dictated by volume and length
Changing the shape of the vocal tract, you can change the resonant frequency
Why is there a quasi periodic vocal fold makeup
Quasi periodic versus periodic is a semi consistent versus a consistent occurrence at regular intervals
Tone passes through the filter of the vocal tract and sound changes because the vocal tract is moveable or malleable
What are consonants
Phonation and turbulence
Mobile articulators
Tongue
Mandible
Velum
Lips
Cheeks
Fauces
Pharynx
Larynx
Hyoid
What is speech?
It is a product of sending an acoustic source or phonation through a filter or the vocal tract
Resonant frequency characteristics
Based on the shape and volume of the cavity, and it governs the perception of vowels versus the vocal folds
Less surface area creates a high pitch, so larynx and pharynx are constricted
What are the immobile articulators
Alveolar ridge
Hard palate
Teeth
Bones of the skull
28 total bones, 3 groups
14 facial skeleton
8 cranial skeleton
6 middle ear (bilateral)
Facial bones
Mandible
Maxillae
Nasal
Palatine bone
Vomer
Zygomatic
Lacrimal
Inferior nasal conchae
Mandible characteristics
Single bone - forms in 2 halves and fuses at the mandibular synthesis
2 sections
Body - mental formamen, alveolar process, mental protuberance
Ramus - angle of mandible, mandibular notch (coronoid and condylar process)
Strongest single bone in face, used to generate chewing and biting
Mandible mental foramen
Each side of the body that allows blood vessels and nerves to pass through, particularly the trigeminal nerve and the alveolar process
Ramus - mandible
Lies perpendicular to the body
Mandibular notch located at the superior top end
Depression at the top divides into 2 processes
Coronoid process - mandible
Upward projection anterior portion and the temporal muscle inserts here
Condylar process - mandible
Articulates with the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone