inarticulation
English
Etymology
in- + articulation
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.ɑː(ɹ).tɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
inarticulation (countable and uncountable, plural inarticulations)
- (uncountable) The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.
- 1976, Uma Parameswaran, A Study of Representative Indo-English Novelists, →ISBN, page 81:
- "The inarticulation of a fond father in an undemonstrative family setting is brought out admirably..."
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- (education, US) Any point in the educational system in which the development of the individual is hindered.
- 1937, Fred Engelhardt and Alfred Victor Overn, Secondary Education: Principles and Practices , page 124:
- "Another traditional source of inarticulation is the requirement of an eighth-grade diploma for entrance to high school."
- 1937, Fred Engelhardt and Alfred Victor Overn, Secondary Education: Principles and Practices , page 124:
- An inarticulate or underarticulated utterance.
- 2002, Mad Macz, Internet Underground: The Way of the Hacker , page 111:
- "There are some methods of jargonification that became established quite early... These include verb doubling, sound-alike slang, the '-P' convention, overgeneralization, spoken inarticulations, and anthropomorphization."
- 2002, Mad Macz, Internet Underground: The Way of the Hacker , page 111:
Related terms
- underarticulation
- overarticulation
- hyperarticulation
French
Noun
inarticulation f (plural inarticulations)
- inarticulation
Further reading
- “inarticulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.