Questions tagged [articulation]
What the body (mouth, throat, nose, lungs) does to pronounce a sound or 'phone'. Se also phonetics.
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Why are the higher harmonics less prominent in a spectrum of modal (as opposed to breathy) phonation?
I'm trying to learn more about breathiness. I understand that the cepstral peak is less prominent in the cepstrum of breathy phonation than plain ol' modal phonation -- but I'm not sure why this may ...
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What is the difference between an alveolar trill and a syllabic alveolar trill?
I wanted to understand how to articulate the sound ṛ from IAST (transliteration system for indian languages).
On Wikipedia i have found this explanation:
ऋ पृ [ərə] (traditional) or [ri] (...
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What is the role of watching articulation in learning pronunciation?
It's obviously easier to pronounce and, perhaps even acquire, a sound or sequence not present in one's native language if one watches carefully a speaker's mouth. What is this phenomena called? Where ...
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How does passing air through a narrow glottis cause vibrations?
I'm studying phonetics as part of a Linguistics degree, and in my textbook, the author discusses how we make our vocal folds narrow, almost touching, such that air passing through vibrates. This is ...
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Roles of the vocal cords
I've heard that there are 3 parts to the vocal cords: the true vocal cords, and the "false" vestibular folds and ventricular ligament. I read that the vestibular serves some function in chanting and ...
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Can the term "homorganic" be applied to vowels and glides?
As I understand it, "homorganic" means having the same place of articulation, and is said of sounds like [k] vs. [g] and [s] vs. [t]. (I couldn't find a definition from a linguistics source on the ...
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Are there any languages or cultures where people speak while inhaling?
In English, a 'gasp' exclamation seems to be the only word spoken while inhaling. Though it is sometimes implied that the expression is not voluntary, it typically is in most conversations.
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Secondary articulation vs assimilation
I was teaching a linguistics class and I came across this topic "secondary articulation". It was the first time for me to hear the term. I had always known that the effect of a preceding or following ...
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What is the phonological process whereby a speaker uses [ʊ] as a replacement for [l]?
What is the phonological process whereby a speaker would use [ʊ] as a replacement for [l]?
Some examples off the top of my head; [lɪtl] -> [lɪtʊ], [gɪgl] -> [gɪgʊ], [twɪŋkl] -> [twɪŋkʊ]
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Multimedia materials for pronunciation learning
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 the German, Spanish and American English languages....
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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 the ...
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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 /p ...
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