Researchers explore how anatomical variations in a speaker's vocal tract affect speech production. Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the subjects ...

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The book provides an account of the structure and use of the vocal organs, and the means of securing distinct articulation; it should be useful to all persons who are attending practical classes ...

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Articulatory phonetics refers to the “aspects of phonetics which looks at how the sounds of speech are made with the organs of the vocal tract” Ogden (2009:173). Articulatory phonetics can be seen as ...

A study looks at how human loss of vocal membranes, which are present in primates, simplified the larynx and led to the capability of more sophisticated speech.

In JASA, researchers explore how anatomical variations in a speaker’s vocal tract affect speech production. Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the ...