inarticulation

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ articulation.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.ɑː(ɹ).tɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

inarticulation (countable and uncountable, plural inarticulations)

1. (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..."

2. (education, US) Any point in the educational system in which the development of the individual is hindered.
   • 1937, Fred Engelhardt, 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."

3. 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."

Related terms

• underarticulation
• overarticulation
• hyperarticulation

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

inarticulation f (plural inarticulations)

1. inarticulation

Further reading

• “inarticulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.