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  2. Articulatory phonetics - Wikipedia

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    The field of articulatory phonetics is a subfield of phonetics that studies articulation and ways that humans produce speech. Articulatory phoneticians explain how humans produce speech sounds via the interaction of different physiological structures.

  3. Speech sound disorder - Wikipedia

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    A speech sound disorder (SSD) is a speech disorder affecting the ability to pronounce speech sounds, which includes speech articulation disorders and phonemic disorders, the latter referring to some sounds not being produced or used correctly. The term "protracted phonological development" is sometimes preferred when describing children's ...

  4. Articulate - Wikipedia

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    Articulate brachiopods, brachiopods with toothed hinges and simple opening and closing muscles; Articulate sound, to move the tongue, lips, or other speech organs in order to make speech sounds; Articulated vehicle, a vehicle which has a pivoting joint in its construction; Articulate, a public television series about creative artists

  5. Ejective consonant - Wikipedia

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    In producing an ejective, the stylohyoid muscle and digastric muscle contract, causing the hyoid bone and the connected glottis to rise, and the forward articulation (at the velum in the case of [kʼ]) is held, raising air pressure greatly in the mouth so when the oral articulators separate, there is a dramatic burst of air. [1]

  6. Manner of articulation - Wikipedia

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    Human vocal tract Articulation visualized by real-time MRI.. In articulatory phonetics, the manner of articulation is the configuration and interaction of the articulators (speech organs such as the tongue, lips, and palate) when making a speech sound.

  7. Glottal stop - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally in Received Pronunciation, "hard attack" was seen as a way to emphasize a word. Today, in British, American and other varieties of English, it is increasingly used not only to emphasize but also simply to separate two words, especially when the first word ends in a glottal stop.

  8. Spoken language - Wikipedia

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    A spoken language is a form of communication produced through articulate sounds or, in some cases, through manual gestures, as opposed to written language. Oral or vocal languages are those produced using the vocal tract, whereas sign languages are produced with the body and hands.

  9. Comparison of General American and Received Pronunciation

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    Rhoticity – GA is rhotic while RP is non-rhotic; that is, the phoneme /r/ is only pronounced in RP when it is immediately followed by a vowel sound. [5] Where GA pronounces /r/ before a consonant and at the end of an utterance, RP either has no consonant (if the preceding vowel is /ɔː/, /ɜ:/ or /ɑː/, as in bore, burr and bar) or has a schwa instead (the resulting sequences being ...