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1. Consonant

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   Place of Articulation
   The place of articulation refers to the specific location in the vocal tract where the maximum constriction occurs. While standard linguistic descriptions identify locations such as bilabial, alveolar, and velar, research in psychoacoustics suggests that the true perceptual location is often displaced anteriorly by an average of $3.5 \text{ mm}$ due to predictive neural mapping …