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coarticulate

coarticulate verb: to articulate two things simultaneously.

Verb

coarticulate (third-person singular simple present coarticulates, present participle coarticulating, simple past and past participle coarticulated)

  1. To articulate two things simultaneously.
  2. To unite to form an articulation (joint)
  3. To assimilate the place of articulation of one speech sound to that of an adjacent speech sound.
  4. To articulate a speech sound at two different places of articulation simultaneously, as in the labiovelar approximant [[[w]]].

Forms of coarticulate

third-person singular presentcoarticulates
present participlecoarticulating
past participlecoarticulated
pastcoarticulated

Origin of coarticulate

From co- + articulate.

Questions about coarticulate

What does coarticulate mean?
Coarticulate means to articulate two things simultaneously.
What part of speech is coarticulate?
Coarticulate is a verb.
What is the past tense of coarticulate?
The past tense of coarticulate is coarticulated.

Words near coarticulate in the dictionary

  1. coarsens
  2. coarser
  3. coarsest
  4. coarsish
  5. coarsy
  6. coarticulate
  7. coarticulated
  8. coarticulates
  9. coarticulating
  10. coarticulation
  11. coarticulations

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