Meaning | The aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech. |
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Narrower | affrication | The conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate |
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aspiration | A manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath |
enunciation, diction | The articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience |
epenthesis | The insertion of a vowel / vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier |
nasalization, nasalisation | The act of nasalizing / nasalizing |
retroflection, retroflexion | An articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth |
sandhi | The articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech) |
syncope, syncopation | (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in 'fo'c'sle' for 'forecastle') |
thickness | indistinct articulation |
trill | The articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant 'r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula |
Broader | pronunciation | The manner in which someone utters a word |
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Spanish | articulación, modo de articulación |
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Catalan | articulació, mode d'articulació |
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Adjectives | articulatory, articulative | of or relating to articulation |
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Verbs | articulate | speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way |
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