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What is the thin flaps on top of your windpipe called?
The thin flaps on top of your windpipe are called the vocal cords. These cords vibrate when air passes through them, producing sound. They are essential for speaking and singing.
How the larynx works in the throat while swallowing?
The larynx is located at the top of the trachea or windpipe. In the larynx, the vocal folds, commonly known as the vocal cords, close tightly when swallowing to prevent any food or drink from entering the trachea and lungs.
What are your vocal cords and how do they work?
Your vocal cords - are two strips of skin located at the top of the larynx. When air passes over them, they vibrate - combined with the shape of your mouth, and breathing method - they produce sound.
Where is the windpipe located at?
The windpipe is in the chest,superior(laying on top) of the esophogus.The formal name for it is the trachea.
What are facts about the human voice?
The human voice is produced by the vibration of vocal cords in the larynx. Vocal range varies among individuals due to differences in vocal cord length and tension. The pitch and volume of the voice can be modulated by adjusting the tension and size of the vocal cords.
Sits a-top the trachea and moves muscles to change the shape of vocal cords?
The larynx
What vibrates in your voice?
Your vocal cords. A membrane across the top of your wind-pipe, (inside your Adam's apple) that's used to produce turbulence in flowing air.
What contains the voice box and vocal cords?
Forgive me if I'm wrong, bu I think that the vocal chords are located in the larynx. Another name for the larynx is the voice box, and inside it are the vocal chords. Vocal chords are thin bands of tissue that vibrate when exhaled air rushes past them; this enables you to make sounds when you speak or sing. I was just studying this material for a science test that I have tomorrow, lol ^_^ . 2. Larynx is correct.
What is the organ that helps us talk?
The voicebox allows you to speak. It is a hollow, tubular organ situated at the top of your windpipe and its two main jobs are to stop food from entering the airways and allow you to speak. The voicebox or larynx works by manipulating the air that passes over it. As the air enters the voicebox, the vocal cords expand and contract, working together with the lips, tongue, teeth AND throat. The shorter your vocal cords, the higher the sound you produce. The mouth is also very important. When you whisper, you can make sounds with the help of the voicebox. The air blows through your mouth and creates various vibration patterns
What keeps food from going down our windpipe?
Food is kept out of the lungs by a structure in the throat called the epiglottis. It is a flap of skin found just above the vocal chords and larynx (the "windpipe") which leads to the lungs. When a person swallows, the epiglottis folds over top of the vocal cords and blocks off the larynx, preventing food from entering our lungs. Choking, the feeling of having something 'stuck' in your throat, or 'going down the wrong way' can happen because the epiglottis is ONLY a flap of skin that works upon a reflex. For a picture of the epiglottis go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gray1204.png (although I got this picture from Wikipedia, I did NOT receive my information from there)
Where are the vocal cords on a child located?
Your vocal folds (also called the ventricular folds) are toward the top of your larynyx, protecting your vocal chords. These folds help prevent you from breathing in solids. A very interesting effect is produced when you sing and you get these folds to vibrate. They will vibrate at half the speed of your vocal chords, and produce a sound an octave lower than the note you are singing with your vocal chords. This sounds much like a foghorn or a prolonged burp. The people most noted for producing this effect, theTuvans, call this effect kargyraa.
How can you activate your second set of vocal cords?
There are indeed a second set of laryngeal folds. However these folds are the middle closure process in the trachea securing the windpipe from the entrance of liquids or solids into the breath way during swallowing. The first closure valve on the way down is the epiglottis which is at the bottom back of the tongue. The epiglottis is like a door that opens up and forward against the back of the tongue, and closes by flopping down over the entrance to the trachea. This entrance is also the top of the larynx which is the top two cartilages of the trachea. Below the epiglottis are the false folds which actuate in closure only during swallowing. They close similarly to the vocal cords, hinging from the inside top front center wall of the thyroid cartilage and close as a bifurcated leaf valve (2 leaves). During phonation or vocal sound production the false folds actually erect in hyper-open posture and facilitate the horn or resonance tube of the throat or pharynx. In this process of opening erection they significantly affect the quality of the sound produced by the vocal process enhancing or defeating quite specifically the overtone structure of the sound produced. In this manner indeed they can assist the multi-tonal production of the Tibetans and others: Google "David Hykes". The vocal cords are the bottom most valve structure of the larynx and attach just below the false cords. During swallowing they close forcefully in coordination with the false folds to secure the windpipe. During sound production they also close but malleably with infinite if not eternal capability to produce sound. The vocal cords produce sound with two leaves like the false folds in a process that is most easily described as clapping. Air can flow in either direction or not flow at all during the process and the sound produced is colored accordingly. With the resonance manipulation capability of the pharynx of which the false folds are only a part, the process of the sound production by the vocal cords is quite capable of producing more than one formant or tonal structure. Learning to use the process in this manner takes significant training and concentration of attention as you know.
