Many
parts of our body go into the making of the sounds which we utter and the words
which we say to one another. Speech starts when the diaphram squeezes air out
of our lungs and into the windpipe. At the top end of the windpipe is the
larynx, or ‘Adam’s apple’-that is the hard bit you can feel at the front of
your neck. Inside the larynx are the vocal cords, two bands of elastic tissue
like a strings of a violin. As the air passes over these cords, they vibrate to
produce sound.
Sound is turned into words when it reaches the mouth, by movments of the tongue and lips.
Sound is turned into words when it reaches the mouth, by movments of the tongue and lips.
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