place of articulation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofplaceandarticulation
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place
noun
uk/pleɪs/us/pleɪs/
an area, town, ...
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articulation
noun
uk/ɑːˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ɑːrˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
the way in which you pronounce words or ...
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(Definition ofplaceandarticulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofplace of articulation
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All but one of the place errors on velar targets involved fronting to an alveolarplaceofarticulation.
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First, it captures the natural classes of stops without regard toplaceofarticulation.
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Moreover, deletion was more likely in contexts where consonant transitions involved changing theplaceofarticulation, which encouraged cluster simplification.
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In this instance, there is cluster concord with respect toplaceofarticulation.
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It was only rarely possible to also match the initial consonant of the word, or even itsplaceofarticulation.
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If we group consonants in terms of theirplaceofarticulation, there is very little difference from everyday conversation.
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The results are presented separately by language group (a) andplaceofarticulation(b).
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In fricative-fricative strings, the surviving consonant has the least markedplaceofarticulation.
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For example, the primary gesture for m is the closure of the lips, hence theplaceofarticulationis bilabial.
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In addition, the set of uvular, pharyngeal and laryngeal consonants is prohibited from co-occurring, indicating that sharedplaceofarticulationcan be construed rather broadly.
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Two levels of white noise were then introduced, and subjects were tested for their ability to discriminateplaceofarticulation.
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However, this is unlikely to be entirely true of relatively stable features, such asplaceofarticulationor voicing in wordinitial position.
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There is a slight preference (60:40%) in favour of changing theplaceofarticulationfrom one consonant to the next, but nothing very dramatic.
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Turning phonology inside out : testing the relative salience of audio and visual cues forplaceofarticulation.
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It is possible that theplaceofarticulationof early liquid productions by infants is more central than it is in adult productions.
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Test items were controlled for consonant effects in terms of palatalisation, sonority, manner of articulation and, if possible, forplaceofarticulation.
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