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Speak Out! (IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group Newsletter) Issue 47, September 2012
Teaching the basis
of articulation
Piers Messum
In Speak Out! 46, Constantine...
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Speak Out! (IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group Newsletter) Issue 47, September 2012
Teaching the basis
of articulation
Piers Messum
In Speak Out! 46, Constantine Borissoff (2012) argued
that we should restore the original meaning to the
phrase ‘basis of articulation’ (BoA), and amend our
use of the phrase ‘articulatory setting’ (AS). BoA
should refer to the basic positioning of just the tongue
for a given language, he suggests, while AS should be
used not as a synonym for this but instead to describe
the characteristic setting of all the articulators – lips,
vocal folds, etc – for a given language.
Borissoff adopted Hardcastle’s (1976:101) division of the
muscles of the tongue into a Tongue Body system and a
Tip-Blade system, with the former serving as the
‘positioning agent’ for the latter. He adapted some ‘stick
man’ pictures from Lindblom (1983) to illustrate the BoA
concept as it would ap
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