A critical account of articulatory phonology : a subject review

الملخص EN

Phonological theories are in constant search for common points among natural languages, but there are complexities in applications weaking such theories.

Articulatory phonology started as a system of gestures that are based on phonological units depending on phonetic articulation.

However, it has ended widith loose terminology, a poor economy of principles and rules, vague concepts and dimensions, following subjective methods of analysis, and poor workability.

This has left the theory without further applications and studies that are yet to be addressed.