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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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:Uvular:

Pronunciation GB: ˈjuːvjələ, GA: ˈjuːvjələr

The name of a place of articulation. The active articulator is the back of the tongue and the passive articulator is the uvula. q and χ are examples of uvular sounds. For the uvular trill ʀ, it would be more accurate to speak of the back of the tongue as the passive articulator and the uvula itself as the active articulator.

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