Glossary

Speak sound: sound produce by muscles contracting, the vocal tract components and the vibration of the vocal cords. Vocal Track: set of components that give to the voice different characteristics some of them are Larynx: is the most important organ for the function of the speech, is placed in the neck and is made out of cartilage. Velum: or soft palate allows air to pass through the nose and through the mouth, is one of the articulators that can be touched by the tongue. Tongue:

Hard palete: Vowel: sound where’s no obstruction of the flow of the air, it past from the larynx through the lips with no stops Consonants: the consonants are producing in a different way, they have obstruction and the need of other parts os the vocal trackt, like the teeth, tounge, velum, palate, etc. Speech: the faculty of speeking, oral communication, ability to express thoughts and emotions, the speech is only a human hbaility, this is because of the vocal track. Diphthongs: sounds which consists of a movement or glide from one vowel to another. (examples) Triphthong: One word to another and then to a third (examples) Plosives: consonant articulation that had one articulator that moves against other that form a structure which allows no air to scape from the vocal tract, then this air is compressed and released. Bilabial: when is a block or constrict airflow out of the mouth by bringing your lips together (examples) Alveolar: the teeth meet the gums, the tongue is raised at the alveolar ridge pint, it blocks the airflow Velar: the back of the tongue stops with the velum blocking the airflow Phoneme: the unit of the sound that has meaning in any language, there is in the IP(International Phonetic Alphabet) 44, each of this symbol had they own sound. Phonetic transcription: every speech sound must be identified as one of the phonemes and written with the appropriate symbol. Syllable structure: if we take a word and broke it in parts we have here as you can see, the syllable structure of a word, those consist in the main parts of a word (take examples of words and separate it)

First, we have to define the topics: Phonetics: Describing the sound that we use in the speaking Phonology: study of the abstract side if the sounds of language