S: (n) articulation (the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech)
S: (n) affrication (the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate)
S: (n) aspiration (a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath)
S: (n) epenthesis (the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier) "the insertion of a vowel in the plural of the word `bush' is epenthesis"
S: (n) retroflection, retroflexion (an articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth)
S: (n) enunciation, diction (the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience)
S: (n) syncope, syncopation ((phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle'))
S: (n) sandhi (the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech))
S: (n) thickness (indistinct articulation) "judging from the thickness of his speech he had been drinking heavily"
S: (n) trill (the articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula) "he pronounced his R's with a distinct trill"