Articulation

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Articulation is the general term for the physiological movements involved in speech production. Reference is made to airstream mechanisms, the vocal folds, the position of the velum and the position of the tongue and lips. Any part of the vocal apparatus involved in speech production is called an articulator.

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Watch X-ray videos of speech production

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Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics