👉 Punctator, a term used in linguistics and phonetics, refers to the act of making a sound by closing one's mouth. In other words, it involves making a pause or stop between sounds during speech. The term was first introduced by the German mathematician Eduard von Plüschitz in 1834. Punctators typically make pauses between syllables when they are reading aloud or speaking to another person. This can be done for various reasons such as articulation
