Uvular

Uvular articulation site

Sagittal plane of the human oral cavity , oro pharynx and Larynopharynx. Places of articulation (active and passive): 1 exolabial (outer part of the lip), 2 endolabial (inner part of the lip), 3 dental (teeth), 4 alveolar (front part of the dental dam), 5 postalveolar (rear part of the dental dam and a little behind), 6 prepalatal (front part of the hard palate), 7 palatal (hard palate), 8 velar (soft palate), 9 uvular (also postvelar; uvula) , 10 pharyngeal (pharynx), 11 glottal (also laryngeal; vocal cords) , 12 epiglottal (epiglottis), 13 radical (tongue root), 14 posterodorsal (rear part of the tongue), 15 anterodorsal (front part of the tongue), 16 laminal (tongue leaf ), 17 apical (tongue tip), 18 sublaminal (also subapical; underside the tongue)

In phonetics , uvular describes the (movable) articulation location of a sound. A uvular sound (also known as suppository sound ) is formed with the involvement of the uvula (lat. Uvula ).

The International Phonetic Alphabet knows the following uvular consonants :

The distribution of the uvular “r” in north-western Europe in the middle of the 20th century (according to Trudgill 1974):
█ unusual
verwendet used in formal language only by a few speakers
üb common in formal language
█ common

literature

John Clark, Collin Yallop, Janet Fletcher: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. 3rd edition. Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
T. Alan Hall: Phonology: An Introduction. De Gruyter Study Book, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-015641-5
Peter Ladefoged , Ian Maddieson: The Sounds of the World's Languages. Blackwell, Oxford 1996, ISBN 0-631-19814-8 .

Web links

Wiktionary: uvular - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Phonetics and Phonology. Chapters 1-9. University of Bremen
International Phonetic Association

Individual evidence

^ Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. (PDF) Hall, Chapters 1.1–1.5; Clark & Yallop, Chapter 2 & 3. Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006
^ Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. (PDF) Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006 (Clark & Yallop, Chapter 2 & 6)
^ Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. (PDF) Hall, Chapters 1.1–1.5; Clark & Yallop, Chapter 2 & 3. Exercises & Solutions. Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006

[1] Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. (PDF) Hall, Chapters 1.1–1.5; Clark & Yallop, Chapter 2 & 3. Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006

[2] Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. (PDF) Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006 (Clark & Yallop, Chapter 2 & 6)

[3] Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. (PDF) Hall, Chapters 1.1–1.5; Clark & Yallop, Chapter 2 & 3. Exercises & Solutions. Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006