| 释义 |
velic, n. and a. Phonetics.|ˈviːlɪk|
[f. velum + -ic.]
A. n. (See quot. 1943.)
B. adj. Pertaining to or involving the velum or its movement.
1943K. L. Pike Phonetics iv. 58 The upper part of the soft palate facing the nasopharynx is the velic (so called in this discussion to distinguish it from the velum, which represents the lower side toward the mouth); the closure of the nasal passage is therefore a velic closure (in contrast to velar closure, when the tongue touches the soft palate). 1971Chin-Wu Kim in W. O. Dingwall Survey Linguistic Sci. 34 At time 4, the lip rounding for [u] and [w] is super⁓imposed on [k]; at time 5, their velic quality underlies [l]. 1975Amer. Speech 1972 XLVII. 244 Pin and bin are the same at the end and in the middle and partly the same at the beginning: for both, the lips are closed and the velic is closed. 1981Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 81 The key features involved are velic closure (for nasalization), apical closure (for stops, fricatives, liquids), and vocal cord vibration (voicing). |