The Chain process of Speech Sounds and Language

Speech Sounds : Articulatory Phonetics 1.  The chain process of speech sounds and language. 

Speech and Language chain in the communication process.

In this lesson, as the first part of the 'Speech Sound : Articulation Phonology' part, we will look at how the linguistic meaning and neuromuscular activity are distinguished and what flow they show in the production of speech sounds.

Firs of all, as we begin the area of speech sounds, we need to think about the meaning of speech sounds.

Speech sounds are neuromuscular activities to convey linguistic symbols phonetically and physically, and the premise is that they must be sounds with linguistic meaning.

The picture above is a 'speech chain' that schematizes the process in which the 'speaker' forms language and transmits it through speech sounds, and the 'listener' accepts and understands it in the process of communication centered on speech sounds.

Formation : Linguistic - Physiological

Speakers try to express their thoughts and feelings through language. In this process, the brain tries to 'convert' thoughts into speech sounds in order to communicate them, which must first be 'shaped' into linguistic form. In the picture, if the boy who is the 'speaker' thinks of a name while looking at a girl who is older than him, it is encoded in linguistic : 'Meaning-Phonology=Morphology-Syntax-Pragmatics' form through cerebral physiological processes [e.G. phonological knowledge ('s/y/s/t/e/r' - /syster/), and through the movement of the speech sound production organs 'lungs, vocal cords, oral cavity, nasal cavity, tongue, and lips', 'breathing - voice' It prepares for the process of 'resonance - articultation' and develops neuromuscular activity that will be converted into sound.

Transmission : Vocal - Physical

The formed speech sound is 'transmitted' through the vibration of the medium, air. This vibration is a sound wave and contains paralinguistic content with properties such as pitch, intensity, speed, intonation, and sound quality, and arrives at the listener (receiver).

Acceptance : Physical - Physiological

Arriving speech sounds are 'accepted' through the 'listener's' ears. The transmitted wave passes through the listener's external auditory canal, middle ear cavity, and inner ear (Cochlea-organ of Corte, etc.), is converted into neural electrical energy, and finally travels to the temporal lobe of the brain via the auditory nerve, the 8th cranial nerve, via the spiral ganglion.

Comprehension : Physiological - Linguistic

In the final step, the speech sounds that enter the listener's brain are interpreted and linguistically analyzed. The sound energy that enters the listener's brain is analyzed linguistically, including phonological knowledge, words, and phrases, and through this, the speaker's intention and message are 'understood'.

Prior to the speech part, we briefly looked at the core meaning and transmission process of speech sounds through 'Speech Chain'.