• "Articulation is typically used as a more general term  to describe the overall speech production of individuals. Articulatory phonetics  as a field of study attempts to document phones according to specific parameters,  such as their manner or voicing features" (Bauman-Waengler, 2020, p. 18). 

• Articulatory phonetics:

  • production features

  • categorization of phones

  • arrangement of phones  

(Bauman-Waengler, 2020)

• Add phonetic value to transcription symbols

• Needed to note distortions (deviant sound qualities)

• Can be used for:

  • consonants 

  • vowels

  • stress

  • duration

  • syllable boundaries

(Bauman-Waengler, 2020)