Speech/ Sound production

Question 1

Steps in voicing (5)- intentional or automatic?

Answer 1

1. Speaker adducts vocal folds: intentional
2. Speaker increases subglottal air pressure: intentional
3. Vocal folds abduct, air flows upward: automatic
4. Air pressure in glottis decreases: automatic
5. Vocal folds close under tension: automatic

Question 2

Making speech (3)

Answer 2

• Breathing/ respiration/ creating airstream
• Phonation (production of sounds in larynx)
• Articulation (manipulation of structures in the SLVT)

Question 3

Voicing is created:

Answer 3

Through vibration of the vocal folds

Question 4

Phonation types

Answer 4

• modal voice
• whisper
• breathy voice
• falsetto
• creaky voice
• not linguistically relevant to english word meanings