The orofacial region is intricately involved in shaping the speech signal that emerges from the speaker. Without this shaping, speech would be largely a communicatively indistinct blur. It is not surprising, therefore, that there is considerable interest in the embryology, anatomy, and physiology of this extremely important region of the body.
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