ARTICULATION is the process by which sounds, syllables, and words are formed when your tongue, jaw, teeth, lips, and palate alter the air stream coming from the vocal folds.
The study of speech production has been a universe with a lot of possibilities and theories of how language is produced. Also how we conceptualize, formulate and articulate words and phrases.
However the most fascinating to explore is how our body is anatomically well prepared to articulate a word of different sounds; functioning as a system perfectly organized such as a printer, which receives an order from the computer to reproduce any written texts as well as pictures. Everything is measured and place in a correspondent place thus the product will be successful. The way in which our brain functions talking about on terms of speech production is equivalent as the previous example, the brain conceptualizes, formulates and sends that information to the different organs to move simultaneously and produce, this process is called co-articulation due to the movement of some articulatory organs at the same time. Nevertheless our body was not always well prepared to construct speech, since the fact that our articulatory organs were originally created to different given purposes. For instance the main function of the lung is to exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide, not to produce syllables or the teeth were originally created to chowing the food, not too articulate interdental sounds. Therefore, we involved and refine the art of speech production.
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