Labels:book | bulletin board | fence | person | sky | subarachnoid space | tie | windowpane OCR: M. AKING SOUNDS WITH THE LARYNX "HE PITCH of a sound IS determined by the length and tension of the vocal cords Ir your larynx. A s air from your lungs passes over the vocal cords, they start to vibrate. This makes sound ata pitch that varies with the state the vocal cords and the speed at which they vibrate. LOW -PITCHED SOUNDS The larynx relaxes loosening and lengthening the vocal cords. Vocal cords Epiglottis As air from the lungs passes over them. the cords vibrate slowly, producing a low. -pitched sound LOW PITCH HIGHPITCH iungs PITCHEI
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