Test 3 Flashcards
Resonance: What are the resonating chambers?
- mouth
- nose
- pharynx
- sinuses of the face and skull
What is resonance?
Frequency being modulated by modulating the shape of the vocal tract
What is the nasal cavity?
Cavity located in the vocal tract
Divided by nasal septum
Covered in mucous membrane
Contains cilia
It warms, moistens and cleans the air before it enters the lungs
Contains frontal/maxillary sinus
What is the oral cavity?
A cavity in the vocal tract
Most important cavity of the vocal tract for speech production
Shape alteration by tongue movement and of the mandible (lower jaw)
All phonemes exit out of this cavity except nasal sounds
Lips play a large role here in speech production
What is found within the oral cavity?
The hard and soft palate split into 3 parts:
Alveolar ridge,
Oral Cavity: Hard Palate
- Rugae: Ridges found on the hard palate( found behind teeth)/help prepare food to be swallowed
- Median Raphe: Dived hard palate into two sections
Oral cavity: Soft palate/Velum
- Attaches to Palatine Bone; Extension of Hard Palate
- Movable muscle
- separates oral and nasal cavities
- Faucial Pillars Anterior/Posterior: 2 bands of tissues on either side of the soft palate
What is considered a neurological impairment within the Soft Palate/Velum?
When one velum is hanging more than the other
Why is it called a “Soft” palate/velum?
-It has no bones, just muscles, and tissues
- At rest, it hangs in the pharynx
- Considered to be mobile since its being held onto
How does the soft palate/velum move?
- It moves from open to closed
-Open position allows a passage between nasal and oral cavities
-Open = At REST - Closed position cuts off the nasal an oral cavities
What is the opening position of the soft palate/velum called?
Velopharyngeal Port: Opening behind velum
Soft palate Open Passage?
Open:
- Air during respiration
- Sound waves during some speech (nasal) sounds( from the larynx towards the outside )
Soft palate Closed Barrier?
Closed:
- Food during eating
- Preventing sounds that arent nasal( air fro certain speech sounds)
What is the movement of the soft palate?
- Can change the shape of the vocal tract
*Rises up and back—->Touches Pharyngeal wall - the importance of resonance/producing nasals
- Downward open position when producing nasals*
What is the Velum made up of?
-Muscles, aponeurosis(sheet-like tendon), blood supply, and nerves
How are the velum muscles grouped?
1) Elevators(up): assist in velopharyngeal closure
2) Depressors(down)
3) tensors
What are the Velum elevators?
1) Levator Veli Palatini(Primary muscle that elevates velum)
2) Musculus uvulae
What is the levator veli palatini?
- Primary elevator
- originates from the temporal bone of the skull and into the velum
- Elevates to close VP port
What is musculus uvulae?
- Makes up the medial(middle) and posterior(back) portion of velum
- “bunches up at velum (tenses)
- also elevates
What are the Velum depressors?
1) Palatoglossus
2) Palatopharyngeus
What is the palatoglossus?
- Depresses velum/raises tongue: Important for oral articulation
- “Arches towards the back”—> Makes up first Anterior Arch
- Makes up anterior faucial pillar
What is Palatopharyngeus?
- Narrows Pharynx and depresses velum
- “2nd arch in the back”
- Posterior faucial piller
- originates from the inferior half of the lateral wall of the pharynx and thyroid cartilage
What is the velum tensor?
1) Tensor Veli Palatini:
- Tenses velum
- Lateral to levator veli palatini
- Opens Eustachian Tube
- Helps equalize pressure from the middle ear
what does the VP port close with?
Velum
Soft Palate Review
- 5 Muscles control soft plate
- 3 main movements”
1)Elevate( 2 elevators)
2) Depress ( 2 depresseors)
3) Tense( 1 Tensor)
MAIN FUNCTION: For speech is modifying the input from the nasopharynx and the rest of the vocal tract
What does the Velopharyngeal mechanism involve?
1) Veum ( soft palate)
2) nasopharynx
BOTH ASSIST IN VELOPHARYNGEAL CLOSURE
What is the Velopharyngeal Function?
- Ability to open and close velopharyngeal port that affects various aspects of speech
- Closes nose from oral/pharyngeal cavities during swallowing/regurgitation
- allows for quiet breathing
1) Nasal Segments—>Opening of the velopharyngeal port
2) Stops—-> Closed velopharynx: Issues for people who have cleft palate disorder
3) Fricatives—-> open velopharx: air needs to be constricted
What is the Pharynx?
- changes in length and circumference when you open/close it
- Moves laterally
- Moves in an Anterior-posterior direction
- Can be subdivided:
1) Laryngopharynx
2) Nasopharynx
3) oropharynx
What is the Pharyngeal Muscles?
1) Superior pharyngeal constrictor
- Lateral and posterior wall of VP port
- VP closure
What are the patterns of VP closure?
-Coronal
- Circular
- Circular with Passavant’s ridge
- Sagittal
Pattern of VP Closure: Coronal
- Velum RAISES and contracts posterior pharyngeal wall
- Closure generally occurs in the A-P Direction
- Lateral Pharyngeal wall moves medially to contract velum
- 55% of normal speakers
Pattern of VP Closure: Sagittal
- Velum moves up slightly to contract anterior edges of lateral walls
- most movements occur in the lateral pharyngeal walls
- 16% of normal speakers
Pattern of VP Closure: Circular
-Equal movement of the velum and lateral pharyngeal walls
- 10% of normal speakers
Pattern of VP Closure: Circular with Passavants Ridge
- Similar to circular closure
- Posterior pharyngeal wall moves anteriorly to create a true sphincteric closure pattern
- 19% of speakers
Your client closes her VP Port with her lateral pharyngeal walls, what is she using?
Sagittal Closure
What muscles can be involved in VP Closure?
1) levator veli palatini
2) musculus uvulae
3) superior pharyngeal constrictor
What muscles can be involved in VP Closure?
1) levator veli palatini
2) musculus uvulae
3) superior pharyngeal constrictor
What is Velopharyngeal Nasal Airway resistance?
- Opposes movement, causes energy loss
What does Velopharyngeal Nasal Airway resistance do?
1) Can manipulate:
- Adjust cross-section or length
- adjust the opening of nostrils
2) Depends on airflow
- decreases when airflow lowers and vice versa
- Higher resistance: tighter seal: less airflow