{"id":8676,"date":"2019-05-22T16:10:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/palate\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:10:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:18","slug":"palate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/palate\/","title":{"rendered":"Palate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The roof of the mouth in mammals that consists of the hard palate (anterior bony portion) and the soft palate (posterior muscular portion), which separates the oral and nasal cavities. &nbsp;The hard palate, encased in a mucous membrane, provides a surface against which the tongue can be moved and placed to enable sounds. &nbsp;Another function is to allow food to be chewed while breathing. &nbsp;The remaining third of the palate is the soft palate consisting of muscle fibers and connective tissue that terminates in the uvula. &nbsp;When it is lowered or retracted during breathing, it allows air to move in and out of the nose. &nbsp;During the utterance of most sounds it is raised or elevated, thus ensuring that the mouth alone forms the sound (e.g., a velar consonant when the middle of tongue touches the soft palate). &nbsp;When raised, it blocks off the nasal cavity and upper pharynx from the lower pharynx and mouth in order to allow food to be swallowed or to create a vacuum for drinking. &nbsp;If the soft palate is lowered, then nasal sounds are produced. &nbsp;Development of the palate begins during week 5 of gestation, starting with the primary palate, which carries the four incisor teeth. &nbsp;The secondary palate starts to develop by week 6. &nbsp;Together the primary and secondary palates to form to give rise to the hard and soft palates (see figure below). &nbsp;Failure of the hard and\/or soft palate to fuse gives rise to the congenital malformation known as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosh.nhs.uk\/medical-conditions\/search-for-medical-conditions\/cleft-palate\/cleft-palate-information\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.gosh.nhs.uk\/medical-conditions\/search-for-medical-conditions\/cleft-palate\/cleft-palate-information\/&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cleft palate<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Palate.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">Primary and secondary palate boundaries, embryonic structures that give rise to the hard and soft palates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"articulation\">Articulation<\/a>, <a href=\"congenital_malformations\">Congenital malformations<\/a>, <a href=\"cooing\">Cooing<\/a>, <a href=\"larynx\">Larynx<\/a>, <a href=\"lingua-velar_-or_velar-\">Lingua-velar (or velar)<\/a>, <a href=\"pharynx\">Pharynx<\/a>, <a href=\"phonological_process\">Phonological process<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The roof of the mouth in mammals that consists of the hard palate (anterior bony portion) and the soft palate (posterior muscular portion), which separates the oral and nasal cavities. &nbsp;The hard palate, encased in a mucous membrane, provides a surface against which the tongue can be moved and placed to enable sounds. &nbsp;Another function &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/palate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Palate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}