Articulation (n.) is the becoming-writing of language, the thing that makes speech possible and already carries writing inside it.
Articulation (n.) is where convention takes hold: it pulls language out of the cry and grows with consonants, tenses and quantity.
Articulation (n.) makes a language more rational and less musical, so that it loses less by being written: it becomes Nordic.
Articulation (n.) is the dangerous supplement of full speech: it adds itself to presence and, by supplanting it, defers it.
Articulation (n.) replaces accent, and it is the origin of languages.
Articulation (n.) is the structure of my body, and structure is always a structure of expropriation.
Articulation (n.) is what separates man from the animal cry: not the mouth, but the faculty of building a system of distinct signs.