The physiological & pathological relations of the voice and speech / by John Syer Bristowe.

Date:
1880
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Credit: The physiological & pathological relations of the voice and speech / by John Syer Bristowe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    sounds, which by their combinations make words and sentences, and which are consequently ' the acoustic factors of spoken language, are the especial product of the mouth, fauces, and nose, inclusive, of course, as special agents in their production, of the soft palate, Diagrammatic Antero-posterior Vertical Section of Face, Neck, and Skull, showing in its unshaded parts the Cavities or Canals concerned in Phonation and Speech. A Hapd palate. B Soft palate and uvula. C Tongue. D Epiglottis. a Cavity of nose. b Pharyn.x. c Cavity of mouth. d Fauces. e Laryn.x. 1 Cavity of skull. 2 Spinal canal. 3 Bodies of vertebrge. tongue, teeth, and lips. They are all framed, so to speak, on breath emitted from the lungs through the glottis, and for the most part on breath which has undergone vocalisation in the larynx, or at any rate on breath which has been thrown into audible vibra-