What the body (mouth, throat, nose, lungs) does to pronounce a sound or 'phone'. Se also phonetics.
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Animated phonetic sound of Arabic and French
I randomly found this terrific site that contains a good structured collection of images, animations and videos to show how a sound is articulated in some languages. I need a similar resource for ...
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Cross-linguistic association between velarization and pharyngealization
Articulatorily, velarization and pharyngealization are distinct, but they are often conflated in linguistic analyses I've seen:
Conflating them is common enough, I presume, that the IPA allocates ...
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Producing sounds that are not used in one's mother tongue
Why is it that someone who is fully capable of producing a sound foreign to their own language has trouble using that sound in languages that do use it?
For example, let's say that an English speaker ...
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Has there been any research into the phonetics of ventriloquism?
I have always been impressed by the skills of ventriloquists - and I've been wondering lately whether anyone has done any work looking at the acoustic or articulatory properties of the speech of ...
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Why does stop VOT duration vary depending on place of articulation?
From the (albeit citation needed) section of the Wikipedia article on aspiration:
Spanish /p t k/, for example, have voice onset times (VOTs) of about 5, 10, and 30 milliseconds, whereas English ...
