articulatory
Americanadjective
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Linguistics. relating to or involved in the articulation of speech sounds.
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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
Audiovisual memory was better than either alone, and the span of even this was improved when articulatory memory was added.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
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
In the first month of the third year of life the progress is extraordinary, and it is only in regard to the articulatory mechanism that no important new actions are to be recorded.
From The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. by William T. Preyer
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