PHONETICS “PRODUCTION OF SPEECH SOUNDS, THE ORGANS OF SPEECH, SUB – DIVISION OF ORGANS AND ARTICULATIONS” MATERIAL DISCUSSION A. Production of speech Sounds How can we produce speech? In this section we will study the production of speech sounds from an articulatory point of view in order to understand better subsequent sections about vowel and consonant sounds. It must be said that speech does not start in the lungs. It starts in the brain and it is, then, studied by Psycholinguistics. After the creation of the message and the lexico-grammatical structure in our mind, we need a representation of the sound sequence and a number of commands which will be executed by our speech organs to produce the utterance. So, we need a phonetic plan of and a motor plan (Belinchón, Igoa y Rivière, 1994: 590) After this metal operations we come to the physical production of sounds. Speech, then, is produced by an air stream from the lungs, whic...