Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Articulation one with another; especially, the articulation of the bones in a joint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The union or articulation of bones to form a joint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The formation of a
joint by thearticulation of twobones - noun phonology An
assimilation of theplace of articulation of one speechsound to that of an adjacent speech sound.
Etymologies
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co- + articulation
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Examples
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At this point, in some IE dialects, the freely-variant aspiration seems to have become a required coarticulation with the plain-voiced stops.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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Or perhaps pronounced with a coarticulation that is only possible if you have a Vietnamese uvula.
Telofy commented on the word coarticulation
See: Multiple Articulation and Coarticulation
November 5, 2009