Topic-113: Explaining the Summary of the Articulatory Gestures Based on a matrix of features specifying a particular characteristic of a segment and relating that particular characteristic to other similar sounds has made possible a range of similar sounds to be classified in the same class of segments. For example, an oral gesture would specify all supraglottal characteristics (such as place and manner of articulation, and a laryngeal gesture would specify characteristics of phonation. The notion is particularly used in dependency phonology, where categorical, ‘articulatory’ and initiatory gestures are distinguished. Gestures, in turn, are analyzed into subgestures; for example, the initiatory gesture is analyzed into the subgestures of glottal stricture, airstream direction and airstream source. While discussing the articulatory gestures for consonants, it maybe remembered that the case of consonants is even more complicated (than vowels. But still a wide range of sounds are put together to classify them mainly on the basis of the characteristics of their primary articulation. However, sounds may also betaken together on the basis of their secondary articulation (e.g., added lip rounding. Analyze the summarizing table of articulatory gestures for the major categories of consonant sounds in the following table
