articulatory

Kimura (1992) reports that higher levels of articulatory and motor ability have been associated in women with higher levels of oestrogen during the menstrual cycle (p. 84).

G is for Gender « An A-Z of ELT 2010

In certain cases of intrusive R such as “Asiar and Africa” there is a need for _some_ articulatory gesture to mark the word boundary between the schwas of “Asia” and “and”.

Intrusive r | Linguism | Language Blog 2010

The articulatory connection is clear — what is less so is why should clusters such as *[kt] and *[tk] remain.

Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops 2009

Tropylium: "The articulatory connection is clear — what is less so is why should clusters such as *[kt] and *[tk] remain."

Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops 2009

Jenkins 2002 maintains that starting holistically from voice quality and then moving to work on segmentals imply that the learner is pushed to adapt and use the target language articulatory settings with their articulators still geared towards the pronunciation of the sounds of his/her mother tongue.

Teaching Efl Pronunciation: Why, What and How? « Articles « Literacy News 2009

This is clear as well once we take note of the articulatory position of the schwa before deletion.

Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops 2009

In this scenario, the first stop resists change in order to avoid excess breathiness and articulatory effort in this syllable.

Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008

"Easier" in the sense that velar obstruents have the articulatory feature [+high] or at least [-low], which is shared by non-low vowels.

Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions 2008

Now a glottalized aspirated stop does not make much sense, and may even be impossible from an articulatory point of view.

Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008

Glottalic Theory and my "Hybrid Theory" position already establish ejectives as the original phoneme for pretty much the same articulatory reason, putting aside which stage of PIE or Pre-IE had ejectives for the moment.

Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 1 2008