Articulators
There are quite a lot of terms, including technical terms, used to describe the articulators involved in producing sounds:
| everyday name | technical term | adjective |
| lips | labia | labial |
| teeth | dental | |
| tooth ridge | alveolar ridge | alveolar |
| (hard) palate | palatal | |
| soft palate | velum | velar |
| uvula | uvular | |
| upper throat | pharynx | pharyngeal |
| voicebox | larynx | laryngeal |
| tongue tip | apex | apical |
| tongue blade | lamina | laminal |
| tongue body | dorsum (back) | dorsal |
| tongue root | radical |
Move your mouse over the image to see an explanation of the different articulators
This articulatory anatomy diagram is reproduced with permission from the website of the Phonetics Flash Animation Project; a collaboration between the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, German, Speech Pathology and Audiology and Academic Technologies at the University of Iowa.(See Resources section).
