articulatoryadj.
/ɑːˈtɪkjᵿlət(ə)ri/, /ɑːˌtɪkjᵿˈleɪt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ɑrˈtɪkjələˌtɔri/ 1. Anatomy and Medicine. Involved in the connection of bones or skeletal segments. Also: involving or relating to articulation (articulation n. 1a).
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1790 T. Pole Anat. Instructor liv. 181 The lower jaw is to be fixed in its natural situation..so as to bring the articulatory surfaces into contact.
1818 A. Cooper Surg. Ess. i. 41 The articulatory cartilage of the ball of the bone.
1847 Lancet 15 May 506/1 The head of the astragalus, which was torn from the articulatory surface of the os naviculare, protruded through the divided integuments.
1903 Amer. Naturalist 37 718 The proximal joints have an articulatory movement nearly in the same subhorizontal plane.
1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 158 Draw the humerus and show the articulatory head.
1996 S. Lavery et al. Hamlyn Encycl. Complementary Health 42/2 Articulatory techniques are used mainly on ligaments and muscles.
2. Involved in vocal articulation; of or relating to vocal articulation.
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c1800 Proc. & Deb. Parl. Pimlico No. 10. 1/1 Mister Fitz Kerry..had screwed up his articulatory organs to concert-pitch on the occasion.
1849 H. Mandeville Elem. Reading & Oratory i. 29 Articulatory accent is either primary or secondary: the first, distinguished from the last,..by being produced by a more forcible utterance.
1890 W. 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.
1935 G. K. Zipf Psycho-biol. Lang. (1936) v. 230 Conceptual words relate our speech to our experience, articulatory words relate our conceptual words to one another.
1964 R. 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.
1994 Eng. Today Oct. 6/2 Beatrice Honikman's model of ‘articulatory setting’ represents an attempt to describe how successful mimicry takes place.
Derivatives
articuˈlatorily adv. with regard to vocal articulation.
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1932 Language 8 170 The phoneme is the result of a psychological appraisal on the part of the speaking community by means of which the sounds of their language are, both articulatorily and acoustically, either identified as unimportant varieties of the same sound or differentiated as essentially different units of the sound-system.
2000 Psychol. Rec. (Nexis) 50 373 Because of their lack of clusters, one-syllable Cantonese words are both articulatorily and acoustically simpler than one-syllable English words.
2001 A. Ardila in M. O. Pontón Neuropsychol. & Hispanic Patient vi. 87 The phoneme /x/ (voiced, velar fricative) is lowering articulatorily into the glottal region.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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