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Episode: 0071 – How We Create Recognisable Language
Description: The shape of your mouth and the position of the tongue in relation to the teeth and lips, determine each sound that we translate into recognisable language. Sounds from the larynx will just remain unintelligible mumbles and mutters unless they are formed into words. Words, and therefore ‘meaning’, are comprised of an often-complicated combination of individual sounds (phonemes), which are shaped by our oral ‘articulators’:TongueTeethLipsJawHard palate (the roof of your mouth)Soft palate (the roof of your mouth nearer the top of your throat) In the mouth, several split-second articulatory adjustment...