Белорусский государственный

soft palate
. 
Palato-alveolar
– an articulation between the tongue blade and the back of the alveolar 
ridge; sounds made with the tip of the tongue against the teeth ridge and the front part of the tongue 
raised towards the hard palate, thus having two places of articulation (two foci). Palato-alveolar 
consonants are /ʃ, ʒ/. 
Paralinguistic feature 
– a type of feature that forms part of prosody; generally considered 
to be outside the set of phonological contrasts of a language. 
Pause – 
a short period of time when sound stops before starting again. Pauses are non-
obligatory between sense-groups (intonation-groups) and obligatory between sentences. It is the 
main function of a pause to segment connected speech into utterances and intonation groups to 
delimit one utterance or intonation group from another. 
Pauses of perception
– they are not a stop in phonation as there is no period of silence. The 
effect of a pause is produced by a sharp change of pitch direction, or by variation in duration, or 
both.
Peaks of prominence – 
the points of maximal acoustic activity of tone. 
Perceptual Phonetics
– see 
Auditory Phonetics
. 
Periodic 
– in acoustics, a pattern of vibration which repeats itself at regular intervals; typical 
of vowels. 
Periodicity – 
the quality or fact of recurring at constant intervals. 
Pharyngeal 
– the place of articulation of a consonant formed by constricting the pharynx. 
An articulation involving the root of the tongue and the back wall of the pharynx. 
Pharyngealization 
– a secondary articulation in which the root of the tongue is drawn back 
so that the pharynx is narrowed. 
Pharynx
– the part of the throat which connects the larynx to the upper part of the vocal 
tract.