Exam 3 Flashcards
What are the cavities of the vocal tract?
Oral cavity, buccal cavity, and pharyngeal cavity
Oral cavity characteristics
Most significant, undergoes the most change, shape is altered by movement of the tongue or mandible, extends from the lips to the facial pillars
Buccal cavity function and location
Plays a role in oral resonance when the mandible is depressed, space between the posterior teeth and cheeks
What is the length of the pharyngeal cavity?
12 cm
Pharyngeal cavity characteristics
Goes from behind the nasal cavities to the vocal folds, is lined with muscle that can constrict the space of the tube (for swallowing), and has an important role in closing the velopharyngeal port
What are the three pharynxes?
Oropharynx, laryngopharynx, and nasopharynx
What is the source-filter theory of vowel production?
Voice is generated by the vocal folds, routed (filtered) through the vocal tract, and changes in various articulators change the resonance characteristics of the sound, changing the sound that is produced.
Resonant frequency sources
Vowels: phonation
Consonants: frication/turbulence
What is articulation?
The process of joining two elements together
Name the mobile and immobile articulators
Immobile: alveolar ridge, teeth, and hard palate
Mobile: tongue, lips, mandible, velum, cheeks, pharynx, and larynx/hyoid bone
What is the articulatory system?
The system of mobile and immobile articulators brought into contact to shape the sounds of speech
Muscle involved in tongue tip elevation
Superior longitudinal (t, d)
Muscle involved in tongue tip depression
Inferior longitudinal (k, g)
Muscle involved in tongue tip deviation
Simultaneous contraction of the left superior and inferior longitudinal
Muscle involved in lateral margins relaxation
Slight contraction of the genioglossus, superior longitudinal, and transverse intrinsic muscles (l)
Muscle involved in tongue narrowing
Transverse muscle
Muscle involved in central tongue grooving
Genioglossus and vertical muscles
Muscle involved in tongue retraction
Genioglossus and superior and inferior longitudinal (can also include the styloglossus)
Muscle involved in tongue protrusion
Genioglossus, vertical and transverse muscles
Muscle involved in posterior tongue elevation
Palatoglossus and transverse muscles (k)
Muscle involved in tongue body depression
Genioglossus
Orbicularis oris
- Facial expression and speech
- Single muscle encircling the mouth
- The upper and lower orbicularis oris act as a drawstring to pull the lips closer together and effect a labial seal
- Innervated by the facial nerve
Risorius
- Originates from the posterior region of the face along the masseter muscle
- Inserts into the corners of the mouth
- Retracts the lips at the corners (smiling/grinning)
- Innervated by the facial nerve
Buccinator
- Deep to the risorius following a parallel course
- Originates at the pterygomandibular ligament
- Inserts into the upper and lower orbicularis oris
- Primarily involved in mastication
- Innervated by the facial nerve
Muscles that elevate the upper lip
- Levator labii superioris
- Zygomaticus minor
- Levator labii superioris alaeque nasi (also helps flare nostrils)
- Insert into the mid-lateral region of the upper lip
- Innervated by the facial nerve
Zygomaticus major
- Arises from the zygomatic bone
- Inserts into the corner of the orbicularis oris
- Elevates and retracts the angle of the mouth
- Primary smiling muscle (works with the risorius)
- Innervated by the facial nerve
Levator anguli oris
- Arises from the canine fossa of the maxilla
- Inserts into the upper and lower lips
- Draws the corner of the mouth up and medially
- Innervated by the facial nerve
Depressor labii inferioris
- Originates from the mandible at the oblique line
- Inserts into the lower lip
- Pulls lips down and out
- Innervated by the facial nerve
Depressor anguli oris
- Originates from the mandible at the oblique line
- Fanlike fibers on the orbicularis oris and upper lip
- Depresses corners of mouth, frowning, compresses lips
- Innervated by the facial nerve
Mentalis
- Originates from the incisive fossa of the mandible
- Inserts into the skin of the chin
- Elevates and wrinkles the chin, pulls out the lower lip as in pouting
- Innervated by the facial nerve
Platysma
- Originates from the pectoralis major and deltoid
- Inserts into the corner of the mouth
- Aids in depression of the mandible (mastication)
- Innervated by the facial nerve
Differences in the vocal tract (adult vs. infant)
Infant vocal tract: 6-8 cm
Adult vocal tract: 15-18 cm
- The nasopharynx enlarges and becomes more angled
- The oral and pharyngeal cavities grow
- The tongue descends
- The oropharyngeal space increases
- The length and depth of the mandible increase to accommodate the tongue
What are the muscles of the velum?
- Levator veli palatini
- Muscularis uvulae
- Tensor veli palatini
- Palatopharyngeus
Levator veli palatini
- Arises from the petrous portion
- Inserts into the soft palate lateral to the uvulae
- Elevates and retracts soft palate
- Innervated by the accessory and vagus nerves