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Definition

Any of the various ways to produce a stream of moving air through the vocal tract for the production of speech sounds. Some major mechanisms are pulmonic, glottalic, and velar; each may be produced with an egressive or an ingressive airstream.

Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson