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Where Our Bodies Produce Speech

The illustrations below from Loren Myhre explain where exactly in our bodies we pronounce vowels and consonants. Articulatory phonetics is the study of human speech, and how our vocal tracts enable us to produce sounds. To understand how to pronounce the IPA symbols depicted below, click here.

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