| 释义 |
ˌover-arˈticulate, v.
[over- 27.]
trans. To articulate or pronounce too carefully. Hence ˌover-arˈticulated ppl. a.; ˌover-articuˈlation.
1921H. E. Palmer Princ. Lang. Study 72 The teacher may have considered it his duty to over-articulate his words. 1935A. L. James Broadcast Word iii. 103 Is he pedantic? (i.e. over-articulating sounds); is he clerical? 1935G. K. Zipf Psycho-Biol. of Language (1936) 217 It [sc. the speech of the obsessed speaker] offends the auditor because it is over-articulated in meaning. Ibid. 218 The normal stream of speech steers between the Scylla of over-articulation and the Charybdis of under-articulation. 1975Time Out 9 May 13/2 To overarticulate is a mistake because making a film is an attempt to express the unconscious. |