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VELUM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
VELUM, also soft palate . The soft part of the roof of the mouth, behind the hard palate . There are two adjectives: velar , for the velum itself and sounds made by raising the back of the tongue towards the velum; velaric , referring to a stream of air. See ARTICULATION SPEECH.
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SPEECH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...raising the back of the tongue towards the VELUM . It is thus both bilabial and velar...are several types of approximant. The velum is normally raised to prevent air from...the nose: a NASAL is produced with the velum lowered. The airstream normally passes...
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NASAL
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...through the nose. When a nasal consonant is produced, the velum is lowered to allow air to pass out through nose as well as...of LONDON English. It is the consequence of a setting of the VELUM which causes a degree of nasal resonance greater than the user...
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PALATE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...ALVEOLAR ridge, often described as having two parts: the hard palate (the roof of the mouth proper) and the soft palate (the VELUM ). The adjective palatal is used to describe sounds made by raising the front of the tongue towards the hard palate. See CONSONANT...
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UVULA
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
UVULA. The anatomical term for the soft, fleshy protuberance at the back of the mouth, hanging down from the velum. The adjective uvular describes sounds made by raising and retracting the tongue towards the uvula: for example, the uvular...
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TONGUE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...in a state of rest, and sounds made with the front are palatal . The back of the tongue lies opposite the soft palate or velum when the tongue is in a state of rest, and sounds made with the back include velar consonants and back vowels .
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CONSONANT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...described as a ‘voiceless velar plosive’, where voiceless refers to the state of the glottis, velar to the velum as the place of articulation, and plosive to the manner of articulation (the release of a blocked stream of air). The consonant...
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R
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...by r. It may be articulated with the tongue against the alveolar ridge (upper tooth ridge) or with the uvula against the velum (soft palate) at the back of the mouth. The breath is made to pass over the tongue or uvula in such a way that the organ...
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speech
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...that gives rise to the acoustic properties of speech. The major speech articulators are the lips, jaw , the body, tip and velum of the tongue , and the hyoid bone position (which sets larynx height and pharynx width). The configuration of the speech...
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GUTTURAL
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...criticisms of my own education,” he said in his slow guttural, uncompromised by 50 years of living and working in the USA’ (referring to Bruno Bettelheim, Observer , 6 Sept. 1987). See BURR , PHARYNX , UVULA , VELUM .
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