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articulatory, a.|ɑːˈtɪkjʊlətərɪ| [f. prec. + -y: see -ory.] Of or pertaining to vocal articulation. Sometimes used as = articulary.
1818A. Cooper Surg. Ess. i. 41 The articulatory cartilage of the ball of the bone. 1860H. Spencer Illust. Progr. (1864) 202 Certain of the articulatory and vocal muscles. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xviii. 64 In persons whose auditory imagination is weak, the articulatory image seems to constitute the whole material for verbal thought. 1935G. K. Zipf Psycho-Biology of Lang. (1936) v. 230 Conceptual words relate our speech to our experience, articulatory words relate our conceptual words to one another. 1953C. E. Bazell Linguistic Form iv. 46 Some plausible articulatory-acoustic interpretation can be given of the distributional phoneme. 1955H. A. Gleason Introd. Descriptive Linguistics xiv. 187 Articulatory phonetics..is concerned with the study of sounds usable in speech in terms of the mechanisms of their production by the human vocal apparatus. 1964B. Honikman in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 73 By articulatory setting is meant the disposition of the parts of the speech mechanism and their composite action. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iii. 84 It [sc. phonetics] can be studied primarily as the activity of the speaker in terms of the articulatory organs and processes involved; this is called articulatory phonetics. Hence articuˈlatorily adv., in relation to any matter of vocal articulation.
1952A. Cohen Phonemes of English ii. 23 Two sounds of a language, related either acoustically or articulatorily, which never appear in the same phonetic context, are..variants of one single phoneme. |