Three components of speech

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Three components of speech

• Initiation
• Movement of an organ that generates positive or
  negative air pressure adjacent to it in the vocal
  tract (see website)
• Articulation
• Phonation
• The state of the vocal folds and glottis
• Voiced, voiceless, breathy (murmur), creaky

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Dont get confused
Breathy or murmur
Whisper

• Rat has this right breathy and murmur are two
  words
• for the same thing whisper is different
• For some reason, Cat says that breathy is
  breathy,
• but that whisper is also called murmur

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Which is which?
Voiced
Voiceless
Creaky
Breathy
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Vertical section (viewed from back)
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Mucosal wave

• http//www.voicemedicine.com/normal_voice_function
  ing.htm

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Three components(Catford figure 12)







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Voiceless sounds

• Nasals
• Examples from Angami
• Approximants
• Examples from Toda
• Vowels
• Examples?