Definition of Velopharyngeal. Meaning of Velopharyngeal. Synonyms of Velopharyngeal

- The velopharyngeal fricatives, also known as the posterior nasal fricatives, are a family of sounds sound produced by some children with speech disorders...
- Velopharyngeal inadequacy is a malfunction of a velopharyngeal mechanism which is responsible for directing the transmission of sound energy and air pressure...
- Velopharyngeal insufficiency is a disorder of structure that causes a failure of the velum (soft palate) to close against the posterior pharyngeal wall...
- The velopharyngeal port or velopharyngeal sphincter is the p****age between the nasopharynx and the oropharynx. It is closed off by the soft palate and...
- resulting from an incomplete closure of the soft palate and/or velopharyngeal sphincter (velopharyngeal insufficiency). In normal speech, nasality is referred...
- properly against the back of the throat, causing a condition known as velopharyngeal insufficiency. This causes "nasal" (or more properly "hyper-nasal")...
- non-disordered speech. Sounds restricted to disordered speech include velopharyngeals, nasal fricatives (a.k.a. nareal fricatives) and some of the percussive...
- [𝼀] – Velopharyngeal trill; the velopharyngeal fricative [ʩ] found in disordered speech sometimes involves trilling of the velopharyngeal port, producing...
- port, or velopharyngeal port, when that port is narrowed – see velopharyngeal fricative. With anterior nasal fricatives, the velopharyngeal port is open...
- care can be needed to distinguish this from the extIPA diacritic for velopharyngeal frication in disordered speech, /e͌/, which has also been analyzed as...