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articulatory

American  
[ahr-tik-yuh-luh-tawr-ee] / ɑrˈtɪk jə ləˌtɔr i /

adjective

  1. Linguistics. relating to or involved in the articulation of speech sounds.

  2. Anatomy. relating to or involved in the articulation or movable connection of the joints.


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Linguist Gretchen McCulloch noted that existing words give us very little guidance, and that the sequence of the voiced phoneme /v/ and unvoiced /f/ make for some tricky articulatory acrobatics.

From The Guardian ● May 31, 2017

"Kiss squeaks do not involve vocal fold action, so they're acoustically and articulatory consonant-like," explained Dr Reis e Lameira.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2017

One made without any change in the position of the articulatory organs during its emission.

From 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by B. A. Hathaway

Footnote 11: If speech, in its acoustic and articulatory aspect, is indeed a rigid system, how comes it, one may plausibly object, that no two people speak alike?

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

All that part of speech which falls out of the rigid articulatory framework is not speech in idea, but is merely a superadded, more or less instinctively determined vocal complication inseparable from speech in practice.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

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