Articulation may refer to:

Linguistics

  • Articulatory phonetics, the study of how humans produce speech sounds via the interaction of physiological structures
  • 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 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 vehicle, 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 K - 12 as well as 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
  • Articulation (painting), a painting by Euan Uglow

See also

  • Articulate (disambiguation)
  • Bendable (disambiguation)