Articulation

Articulation may refer to:

Linguistics

• Articulation (phonetics), the movement of the tongue, lips, jaw, and other speech organs to make speech sounds
  • Manner of articulation, how speech organs involved in making a sound make contact
  • Place of articulation, positions of speech organs to create distinctive speech sounds
• Articulatory gestures, the actions necessary to enunciate language
• Articulatory phonetics, the study of how humans produce speech sounds via the interaction of physiological structures
• Articulatory phonology, a theory that attempts to unify phonetics and phonology
• Articulatory speech recognition, the recovery of speech from acoustic signals
• Articulatory synthesis, computational techniques for synthesizing speech based on models of human articulation processes
• Topic–focus articulation, a field of study concerned with marking old and new information in a clause

Engineering

• Articulated vehicles, which have a pivoted joint allowing them to turn more sharply
• Articulation score, in telecommunications, a subjective measure of the intelligibility of a voice system
• Axle articulation, a vehicle's ability to flex its suspension, measured by ramp travel index

Other uses

• Articulation (anatomy), the location at which two or more bones make contact
• Articulation (architecture), in art and architecture, is a method of styling the joints in the formal elements of architectural design
• Articulation (botany), a joint between two separable parts, as a leaf and a stem; see Glossary of botanical terms
• Articulation (dentistry), the contact relationship of the occlusal surfaces of the upper and lower teeth when moving into and away from centric occlusion.
• Articulation (education), the process of comparing the content of courses that are transferred between postsecondary institutions
• Articulation (music), the transition or continuity between multiple notes or sounds
• Articulation (sociology), the process by which particular classes appropriate cultural forms and practices for their own use
• Articulation point, in graph theory, shared vertices of a biconnected component
• Articulatory suppression, a process of inhibiting memory by requiring an individual to repeat an irrelevant speech sound
• Articulatory technique, a type of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment

See also

• Articulate (disambiguation)
• Bendable (disambiguation)