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Excerpt from The Dominion Elocutionist and Public Reader: A System of Elocution Formed on the Philosophy of the Human Voice and the Logical Structure of Language, With Instruction and Exercises for the Cultivation of the Speaking Voice, and for Expressive Reading and Oratorical Delivery
The vocal organs consist of the lungs, the trachea or Windpipe, the mouth with its various parts, the palate, tongue, teeth and lips, and the nasal organs. The lungs and trachea perform the first o?ice. The lungs contain the air, but are themselves otherwise passive. The thorax (or bony sides of the chest) by the action of the dorsal muscles expels the air from the lungs. The air passes along the trachea until it reaches the rima or opening chink, at the top, and then enters the back part of the mouth. If no fur ther efi'ort be used than the action of the will on the rima, sound only issues from the mouth but if speech, the utterance of words, be added, the organs of speech, instantaneously and simultaneously with this expulsion of breath, commence their action, and words are uttered.
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