coarticulate

To articulate two things simultaneously.

Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences To unite to form an articulation (joint)

Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonology, Sciences To assimilate the place of articulation of one speech sound to that of an adjacent speech sound.

Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences To articulate a speech sound at two different places of articulation simultaneously, as in the labiovelar approximant [w].