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  • A
    • :A-accent:
    • :AAVE:
    • :Abduction:
    • :Ablaut:
    • :Accent:
    • :Accidental gap:
    • :Acoustic cue:
    • :Acrolect:
    • :Active articulator:
    • :Acute:
    • :Adaptation:
    • :Adduction:
    • :Advanced tongue root:
    • :Advanced:
    • :Affricate:
    • :Affrication:
    • :African American Vernacular English:
    • :Airflow:
    • :Airstream mechanism:
    • :Aitken’s law:
    • :Alignment:
    • :Allophone:
    • :Alpha notation:
    • :Alternating stress rule:
    • :Alternation:
    • :Alveolar ridge:
    • :Alveolar:
    • :Alveolo-palatal:
    • :Ambisyllabicity:
    • :Amplitude-frequency spectrum:
    • :Amplitude:
    • :Anacrusis:
    • :Anaptyxis:
    • :Anechoic chamber:
    • :Angled brackets:
    • :Angma:
    • :Anterior:
    • :Anticipatory assimilation:
    • :Antiresonance:
    • :Anvil:
    • :Aperiodic:
    • :Apex:
    • :Aphaeresis:
    • :Aphesis:
    • :Apical:
    • :Apico-palatal:
    • :Apocope:
    • :Approach:
    • :Approximant:
    • :Archiphoneme:
    • :Areal feature:
    • :Articulator:
    • :Arytenoid cartilage:
    • :Ash tensing:
    • :Ash:
    • :Aspirate mutation:
    • :Aspiration:
    • :Assimilation:
    • :Association:
    • :ATR:
    • :Attenuation:
    • :Audiogram:
    • :Audiometer:
    • :Auslautverhärtung:
    • :Autocorrelation:
    • :Autosegmental phonology:
  • B
    • :B-accent:
    • :Back vowel:
    • :Back:
    • :Bandwidth:
    • :Bark scale:
    • :Basilar membrane:
    • :Basilect:
    • :Bernoulli effect:
    • :Bidirectional assimiliation:
    • :Bilabial:
    • :Bilateral opposition:
    • :Binary feature:
    • :Bitonal accent:
    • :Biuniqueness:
    • :Blade:
    • :Bleeding:
    • :Bone conduction:
    • :Boundary tone:
    • :Boundary:
    • :Bounded foot:
    • :Braces:
    • :Breaking:
    • :Breath group:
    • :Breathed:
    • :Breathy voice:
    • :Broad consonant:
    • :Broad focus:
    • :Broad transcription:
    • :Broca’s area:
    • :Buccal :
    • :Bundle:
    • :Burst:
  • C
    • :C symbol:
    • :C-accent:
    • :Cadence:
    • :Calling contour:
    • :Cardinal vowel:
    • :Carry-over assimilation:
    • :Catathesis:
    • :Categorical perception:
    • :Central vowel:
    • :Centralised:
    • :Centring diphthong:
    • :Cepstrum:
    • :Chain shift:
    • :Checked:
    • :Checking tone:
    • :Chest pulse:
    • :Chroneme:
    • :Citation form:
    • :Clash:
    • :Clear /l/:
    • :Click:
    • :Clipping:
    • :Clitic:
    • :Close vowel:
    • :Close-mid vowel:
    • :Closed phase:
    • :Closed syllable:
    • :Closing diphthong:
    • :Closing phase:
    • :Cluster reduction:
    • :Cluster:
    • :Coalescence:
    • :Coarticulation:
    • :Cochlea:
    • :Coda:
    • :Compact:
    • :Compensatory lengthening:
    • :Complementary distribution:
    • :Complex tone:
    • :Complex wave:
    • :Compound stress rule:
    • :Compound stress:
    • :Compression:
    • :Conditioning factor:
    • :Conductive hearing loss:
    • :Connected speech feature:
    • :Consonant Capture:
    • :Consonant cluster:
    • :Consonant harmony:
    • :Consonant:
    • :Consonantal:
    • :Constricted glottis:
    • :Content word:
    • :Context-free:
    • :Context-sensitive voicing:
    • :Context:
    • :Continuant:
    • :Contoid:
    • :Contour tone:
    • :Contrast:
    • :Coronal:
    • :Counter-assertive:
    • :Counter-bleeding:
    • :Counter-example:
    • :Counter-feeding:
    • :Counter-presuppositional:
    • :Creaky voice:
    • :Creole:
    • :Crico-arytenoid muscles:
    • :Crico-thyroid muscles:
    • :Cricoid cartilaɡe:
    • :Cyclic rule:
  • D
    • :DAF:
    • :Dark /l/:
    • :dB:
    • :De-accenting:
    • :De-alveolar assimilation:
    • :Debuccalisation:
    • :Decibel:
    • :Declination:
    • :Defective distribution:
    • :Defective vowel system:
    • :Degemination:
    • :Delayed auditory feedback:
    • :Delayed release:
    • :Dental:
    • :Dentolabial:
    • :Derivation:
    • :Designated terminal element:
    • :Devoicing:
    • :DFT:
    • :Diacritic feature:
    • :Diacritic:
    • :Dialect:
    • :Diffuse:
    • :Diglossia:
    • :Diphthong:
    • :Dissimilation:
    • :Distinction:
    • :Distinctive feature:
    • :Distributed:
    • :Distribution:
    • :Disyllable:
    • :Dorsal:
    • :Double articulation:
    • :Double-stressed:
    • :Downstep:
    • :Drag-chain:
    • :DTE:
  • E
    • :Ear drum:
    • :Echo question:
    • :Eclipsis:
    • :Edge tone:
    • :Egressive:
    • :Ejective:
    • :Electropalatography :
    • :Element:
    • :Elision:
    • :Endglide:
    • :Eng:
    • :Environment:
    • :Epenthesis:
    • :Epiglottis:
    • :Equal-loudness contour:
    • :Erhua:
    • :Esh:
    • :Estuary English:
    • :Eustachian tube:
    • :EVAL:
    • :Event sentence:
    • :Excrescence:
    • :ExtIPA:
    • :Extrametricality:
    • :Extrinsic allophone:
  • F
    • :F-zero:
    • :F1-cutback:
    • :F1:
    • :F0:
    • :Faithfulness constraint:
    • :Fall-rise:
    • :Falling diphthong:
    • :False vocal folds:
    • :Falsetto voice:
    • :Faucalised:
    • :Feature geometry:
    • :Feature synthesis:
    • :Feeding:
    • :FFT:
    • :Filled pause:
    • :Filter:
    • :Final obstruent devoicing:
    • :Final syllable lengthening:
    • :Fis phenomenon:
    • :Fixed stress:
    • :Flap:
    • :Floating tone:
    • :Focus:
    • :Foot:
    • :Forensic phonetics:
    • :Formant transition:
    • :Formant:
    • :Fortis:
    • :Fortition:
    • :Fourier analysis/synthesis:
    • :Free stress:
    • :Free variation:
    • :Frequency:
    • :Fricative:
    • :Frictionless continuant:
    • :Front vowel:
    • :Fronting:
    • :Function word:
    • :Fundamental frequency:
    • :Fuzzy logical model:
    • :Fx:
  • G
    • :Gating:
    • :Geminate:
    • :GEN:
    • :General American:
    • :General British English:
    • :Genioglossus:
    • :Gesture:
    • :Glide:
    • :Gliding:
    • :Glottal reinforcement:
    • :Glottal replacement:
    • :Glottal stop:
    • :Glottal:
    • :Glottalic airstream mechanism:
    • :Glottalisation:
    • :Glottalling:
    • :Glottis:
    • :Grammatical item:
    • :Grassman’s Law:
    • :Grave:
    • :Great Vowel Shift:
    • :Greek letter variable:
    • :Grid:
    • :Grimm’s law:
    • :Grooved fricative:
    • :Group:
    • :Guttural:
  • H
    • :H aspiré:
    • :H muet:
    • :H%:
    • :H*:
    • :H-dropping:
    • :h:
    • :H:
    • :Hair cell:
    • :Hammer:
    • :Haplology:
    • :Hard consonant:
    • :Hard palate:
    • :Harmonic analysis:
    • :Harmonic synthesis:
    • :Harmonic:
    • :Harsh voice:
    • :Hash:
    • :Hat pattern:
    • :Head:
    • :Hearing mechanism:
    • :Height:
    • :Heightened subglottal pressure:
    • :Hertz:
    • :Heterorganic:
    • :Hiatus:
    • :High fall:
    • :High rise terminal:
    • :High rise:
    • :High vowel:
    • :High-mid vowel:
    • :High:
    • :Homograph:
    • :Homophene:
    • :Homophone:
    • :Homorganic:
    • :Hyoid bone:
    • :Hyperadaptation:
    • :Hypercorrection:
    • :Hypernasality:
    • :Hyponasality:
    • :Hz:
    • :Hˉ:
  • I
    • :I:
    • :Iambic reversal:
    • :Ideophone:
    • :Idiolect:
    • :Implicational universal:
    • :Implosive:
    • :Incus:
    • :Indexical:
    • :Ingressive:
    • :Initiation:
    • :Initiator:
    • :Inner ear:
    • :Intensity:
    • :Inter-arytenoid muscle:
    • :Interdental:
    • :Intermediate phrase:
    • :Intervocalic:
    • :Intonation phrase:
    • :Intonation:
    • :Intrinsic allophone:
    • :Intrusive r:
    • :Inverse Square Law:
    • :IPA:
    • :Isochronicity:
    • :Isogloss:
  • J
    • :Jitter:
    • :Juncture:
  • K
    • :Key:
    • :Kinesics:
    • :Kymograph:
    • ːKinetic toneː
  • L
    • :L%:
    • :L*:
    • :L:
    • :Labial-palatal:
    • :Labial-velar:
    • :Labial:
    • :Labialisation:
    • :Labiodental:
    • :Labiovelar:
    • :Laminal:
    • :Laryngograph:
    • :Larynx:
    • :Lateral approach:
    • :Lateral release:
    • :Lateral:
    • :Lax:
    • :Leading tone:
    • :Lect:
    • :Lenis:
    • :Lenition:
    • :Lexical incidence:
    • :Lexical item:
    • :Lexical phonology:
    • :Lexical rule:
    • :Lexical stress:
    • :Lexical tone:
    • :Liaison:
    • :Lingual:
    • :Linguolabial:
    • :Linking r:
    • :Lip reading:
    • :Liquid:
    • :Location:
    • :Locus:
    • :Logogram:
    • :Loudness:
    • :Low fall:
    • :Low rise:
    • :Low:
    • :Lowering:
    • :Lx:
    • :Lyman’s law:
    • :Lˉ:
  • M
    • :M:
    • :Main stress rule:
    • :Malleus:
    • :Manner of articulation:
    • :Max-IO:
    • :Maximal onset principle:
    • :McGurk effect:
    • :Media:
    • :Median articulation:
    • :Mel scale:
    • :Melodic tier:
    • :Merger:
    • :Mesolect:
    • :Metathesis:
    • :Metrical grid:
    • :Metrical phonology:
    • :Metrical tree:
    • :Micro-intonation:
    • :Micro-prosody:
    • :Mid level:
    • :Mid vowel:
    • :Minimal focus:
    • :Minimal pair:
    • :Mirror-image convention:
    • :Missing fundamental:
    • :Modal verb:
    • :Modal voice:
    • :Modulation:
    • :Monophthong:
    • :Monosyllable:
    • :Mora:
    • :Morpheme boundary:
    • :Morpheme:
    • :Morphophonology:
    • :Motor theory:
    • :Murmur:
  • N
    • :N-ary feature:
    • :Narrow focus:
    • :Narrow transcription:
    • :Narrow-band:
    • :Nasal approach:
    • :Nasal release:
    • :Nasal stop:
    • :Nasal:
    • :Nasalisation:
    • :Nasopharynx:
    • :Natural class:
    • :Neutral vowel:
    • :Neutralisation:
    • :Non-linear phonology:
    • :Normal voice:
    • :Northern cities shift:
    • :Nuclear Stress Rule:
    • :Nuclear tone:
    • :Nucleus:
  • O
    • :Obligatory contour principle:
    • :Obstruent:
    • :Occlusion:
    • :Occlusive:
    • :OCP:
    • :Octave:
    • :Oesophageal voice:
    • :Onset:
    • :Open phase:
    • :Open syllable:
    • :Open vowel:
    • :Opposition:
    • :Optimality theory:
    • :Oral airstream mechanism:
    • :Oral stop:
    • :Orbicularis oris muscle:
    • :Organ of Corti:
    • :Oropharynx:
    • :Orthography:
    • :Ossicles:
    • :Overlapping distribution:
    • :Oxytone:
  • P
    • :Lexical conditioning:
    • :Palatal:
    • :Palatalisation:
    • :Palatalling:
    • :Palato-alveolar:
    • :Palatography:
    • :Paragoge:
    • :Parametric diagram:
    • :Paroxytone:
    • :Pascal:
    • :Passive articulator:
    • :Pattern playback:
    • :Period:
    • :Periodic:
    • :Peripheral vowel:
    • :Perseverative assimilation:
    • :Pharyngal:
    • :Pharyngeal airstream mechanism:
    • :Pharyngeal:
    • :Phase:
    • :Phon:
    • :Phonation type:
    • :Phonation:
    • :Phone:
    • :Phoneme:
    • :Phonetics:
    • :Phonological rule:
    • :Phonology:
    • :Phonotactics:
    • :Pidgin:
    • :Pitch perturbation:
    • :Pitch:
    • :Place of articulation:
    • :Plastic:
    • :Plosive:
    • :Polarity focus:
    • :Polysyllable:
    • :Post-lexical rule:
    • :Postalveolar:
    • :Pre-aspiration:
    • :Pre-consonantal:
    • :Pre-nasalised consonant:
    • :Pre-occlusion:
    • :Pre-palatal:
    • :Pre-pausal:
    • :Pre-velar:
    • :Pre-vocalic:
    • :Prehead:
    • :Progressive assimilation:
    • :Proparoxytone:
    • :Prosodic hierarchy:
    • :Prosody:
    • :Prosthesis:
    • :Pseudo-elision:
    • :Pulmonic airstream mechanism:
    • :Pure tone:
    • :Pure vowel:
    • :Push-chain:
    • Pharyngealisation
    • Pharynx
    • Phonation phases
  • Q
    • :Quality:
    • :Quantity:
    • :Quefrency:
    • :Question mark:
  • R
    • :R:
    • :Raddoppiamento sintattico:
    • :Raising:
    • :Rank of stricture:
    • :Rcolouring:
    • :Received pronunciation:
    • :Recruitment:
    • :Reduced vowel:
    • :Reduplication:
    • :Regressive assimilation:
    • :Release masking:
    • :Release:
    • :Rendaku:
    • :Resolvability:
    • :Resonance:
    • :Resonant:
    • :Response:
    • :Retracted:
    • :Retroflex:
    • :Reynold’s number:
    • :Rhotacism:
    • :Rhotic:
    • :Rhyme:
    • :Rhythmic clipping:
    • :Rise-fall:
    • :Rising diphthong:
    • :Roll:
    • :Round:
    • :RP:
    • Resonator
    • Rounded
  • S
    • :Sagittal section:
    • :SAMPA:
    • :Sandhi:
    • :Sawtooth wave:
    • :Scala:
    • :Schwa:
    • :Secondary articulation:
    • :Semivowel:
    • :Sensorineural hearing loss:
    • :Sentence stress:
    • :Series:
    • :Sharp:
    • :Sibilant:
    • :Sine wave:
    • :Sinusoid:
    • :Slender consonant:
    • :Slit fricative:
    • :Sociolect:
    • :Soft consonant:
    • :Soft palate:
    • :Sonagram:
    • :Sonagraph:
    • :Sonorant:
    • :Sonority hierarchy:
    • :Southern breaking:
    • :Spectrogram:
    • :Spectrograph:
    • :Spectrum:
    • :Speech pressure waveform:
    • :Speech reading:
    • :Speech synthesis:
    • :Spelling pronunciation:
    • :Spirantisation:
    • :Split:
    • :Spoonerism:
    • :Square wave:
    • :Stapes:
    • :Starred form:
    • :Steady state:
    • :Stirrup:
    • :Stop:
    • :Stopping:
    • :Stranding:
    • :Stress clash:
    • :Stress shift:
    • :Stress-timed:
    • :Stress:
    • :Stretching:
    • :Strict Layer Hypothesis:
    • :Stricture:
    • :Strident:
    • :Strong cluster:
    • :Strong form:
    • :Stød:
    • :Suppletion:
    • :Surd:
    • :Surface form:
    • :Svarabhakti:
    • :Syllabary:
    • :Syllabic consonant:
    • :Syllable nucleus:
    • :Syllable weight:
    • :Syllable-timed:
    • :Syllable:
    • :Syncope:
    • :Synizesis:
    • :Syntactic doubling:
    • :Systematic gap:
    • :Systemic difference:
  • T
    • :Tail:
    • :Tap:
    • :Target quality:
    • :Tautosyllabic:
    • :TBU:
    • :Tense:
    • :Tenuis:
    • :Thorn:
    • :Thyroid cartilage:
    • :ToBI:
    • :Tonality:
    • :Tone group:
    • :Tone sandhi:
    • :Tone-bearing unit:
    • :Tone:
    • :Tongue back:
    • :Tongue front:
    • :Tongue muscles:
    • :Tongue root:
    • :Tonic:
    • :Tonicity:
    • :Tonogenesis:
    • :Trailing tone:
    • :Transcription:
    • :Transition:
    • :Triangular wave:
    • :Trill:
    • :Trisyllabic Laxing:
    • :Truncation:
    • :Turbulent flow:
    • :Tympanum:
  • U
    • :U:
    • :Umlaut:
    • :Unary feature:
    • :Underlying form:
    • :Upspeak:
    • :Uptalk:
    • :Urú:
    • :Uvula:
    • :Uvular:
    • Upstep
  • V
    • :V:
    • :Variable:
    • :Velar softening:
    • :Velar:
    • :Velaric airstream mechanism:
    • :Velarisation:
    • :Velic closure:
    • :Velopharyngeal:
    • :Velum:
    • :Ventricular folds:
    • :Ventricular voice:
    • :Verner’s law:
    • :Vestibular folds:
    • :Vocal cords:
    • :Vocal folds:
    • :Vocal fry:
    • :Vocal process:
    • :Vocalised:
    • :Vocoid:
    • :Voice onset time:
    • :Voiced:
    • :Voiceless:
    • :VOT:
    • :Vowel harmony:
    • :Vowel quality:
    • :Vowel reduction:
    • :Vowel:
    • :VPM label:
    • Vowel quadrilateral
  • W
    • :Wavelength:
    • :Weak cluster:
    • :Weak form:
    • :Weak syllable deletion:
    • :Wedge:
    • :Whistle fricative:
    • :White noise:
    • :Wide-band:
    • :Word boundary:
    • :Word group:
    • :Wynn:
  • X
  • Y
    • :Yod:
    • :Yorkshire assimilation:
  • Z
    • :Zero crossing:
    • :Zero:
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:Velar:

Pronunciation GB: ˈviːlə, GA: ˈviːlər

The name of a place of articulation. The active articulator is the tongue back and the passive articulator is the soft palate. k g ŋ x are examples of velar sounds.

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