Articulatory Phonetics Organs Of Speech Diagram. They serve for creating different sounds mainly the labial bilabial e g. The field of articulatory phonetics is a subfield of phonetics that studies articulation and ways that humans produce speech.
A diagram of the organs of speech as well as places of articulation can be found here. The speech organs are shown in a diagram a cross section of the head and throat. A nice clickable graphic for further illustration of the articulatory anatomy can be found on phonetics.
However these diagrams are sometimes hard for students to understand and connect to reality especially for younger students.
Articulatory phonetics is concerned with describing speech sounds in terms of the positions of the vocal organs when producing any given sound. Nevertheless the term is familiar and meaninful in the contex of articulatory phonetics and will be used here. The tongue moves throughout the mouth and with many of the other organs as well as making shapes like the lips in order to formulate speech. First we briefly describe how speech sounds are produced.
