articulator

Examples

• All

• In the word street, the choice of the articulatory strategy might be determined by competing demands on the articulators due to production context (coarticulation).

  Academic text (2011)

• If large mirrors are available in a classroom or rehearsal space, singers will benefit significantly from observing posture and use of the articulators (lips, teeth, tongue, and jaw).

  Academic text (2006)

• It's so that your articulators are not having to move as fast or as far, but it might also make perception in some ways easier in a case like this.

• Students can also observe their fellow singers, paying close attention to the shape of the articulators associated with particular vowels and pitches.

  Academic text (2006)

• A critical player in speech is the brain, and one of the main reasons the articulators move the way they do is that this is what happens when you couple the neural dynamics of language to an articulation system.

  Blog text (16)

• In phonetics, the mouth's articulators include the tongue, lips, and soft palate.

• To improve their pronunciation, students practiced using their articulators in various exercises.

Synonyms

O

organ of speech

vsarticulator

1 4.4

A body part like the tongue or lips used to make sounds for talking

focuses on movable mouth organs rather than internal voice structures

S

speech organ

vsarticulator

• Specialized

4.1

A body part like the tongue or lips that makes speech sounds

is limited to movable mouth parts that shape speech sounds

V

vocal organ

vsarticulator

• Specialized

3.8

A part of the mouth or throat that helps make speech sounds

refers specifically to movable mouth organs used to shape consonants and vowels

C

clapper

vsarticulator

• Archaic

9.9

The tongue used to speak

describes practical movable mouth parts used to make speech sounds

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology