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M
M 13th letter of the alphabet , usually representing a bilabial nasal as in the English much. It corresponds with the Greek mu. M is the Roman numeral for 1,000. ... Read more
B
B second letter of the alphabet . Its Greek correspondent is named beta. It is a usual symbol for a voiced bilabial stop. In musical notation it is used to represent a note in the scale. In chemistry B is the symbol of the element boron . ... Read more
P
P 16th letter of the alphabet , representing the voiceless bilabial stop. It corresponds to Greek pi, but in form it looks like Greek rho (see R ). For the technical use of P in higher criticism, see Old Testament . In chemistry P is the symbol of the element phosphorus . ... Read more
W
W 23d letter of the alphabet , in form a doubled u or v. It is the usual symbol of a voiced bilabial semivowel, as in the English wing. The same semivowel occurs as second member of the dipthongs au (as in house ), ō, and oo. In twice the w represents a voiceless semivowel, w... Read more

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BILABIAL
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language BILABIAL. A term in PHONETICS for a sound made with both lips: for example, /m/ as in move . See SPEECH .
M
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...and the Romans. Sound value The sound represented by m is normally a voiced bilabial nasal, but before /f/ the closure may be labio-dental rather than bilabial ( comfort ), and before /b, p/ an n may be pronounced /m/: none better...
SPEECH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...passive (as with the front teeth). Place of articulation For bilabial consonants, the narrowing is achieved by bringing the lips...the back of the tongue towards the VELUM . It is thus both bilabial and velar. Manner of articulation This refers mainly to the...
P
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...English, the letter p is normally pronounced as a voiceless bilabial plosive, as in pip . Phonetic variations in English include...well as in dreamt ) is unclear; at all events, the preceding bilabial m prepares the lips for p and is released as for /p/ with...
B
Book article from: World Encyclopedia B Second letter of the Roman-based w European alphabet, almost always representing a voiced bilabial plosive consonant or stop. It is probably derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a house ( c. 3000 bc), which became part...
LABIAL
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language LABIAL. A term in PHONETICS for a sound made with the lips or a lip, such as /p, f/. When both lips are used, the sound is bilabial : /p, b/. When the lower lip is raised towards the upper front teeth, the sound is labio-dental : /f, v/.
ALPHABET
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...ALPHABET A system of written and printed LANGUAGE in which each symbol generally represents one sound, as with b for the voiced bilabial stop at the beginning of the word boat in the ROMAN alphabet as used for English. Nature In most alphabetic systems, such...
W
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...alternate in digraphs according to position: maw/maul , now/noun . Sound value In English, w normally represents a voiced bilabial semi-vowel, produced by rounding and then opening the lips before a full vowel, whose value may be affected. Vowel digraphs...

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Bilabial Contact Pressure and Oral Air Pressure During Tracheoesophageal Speech
Magazine article from: The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Objectives: This study compared bilabial contact pressure (CPsp) and oral air...laryngeal speakers. Nonspeech maximum bilabial contact pressures (CPmax) were measured...percentage of the range utilized for bilabial phonemes. Methods: Ten TE speakers...
Bilabial reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *q in Southern Vanuatu languages.(Squib)
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; Following on an earlier description of sporadic reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *q in Malakula, another set of sporadic reflexes of the same protophoneme is discussed. In Southern Vanuatu languages, *q sporadically merges with the reflexes of *p that occur adjacent to *u. Because the Proto-Southern
The Proto-Oceanic labiovelars: some new observations.
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...that contrast with simple bilabials, this distinction was apparently...labiovelar separately from a bilabial. This paper evaluates the...to contrast between simple bilabials and labiovelars; the use of the bilabial/labiovelar distinction...
The apicolabial shift in Nese.
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...that each of the three Proto-Oceanic (POC) bilabials *b, *p, and *m has bilabial, apicolabial, and alveolar reflexes in the...this phenomenon. Original labiovelars became bilabials, irrespective of the nature of the following...
Interview: Ken Olson discusses winning symbolic victory for labiodental flap
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday; 12/17/2005; ; 686 words ; ...for others. One example is what's called a bilabial trill--(makes sound of bilabial trill)--something like that. There's...called Mangbetu where you have both a voice bilabial trill--(makes sound of voice bilabial trill...
The phoneme inventory of the Aita dialect of Rotokas.(Squib)
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...of Central Rotokas as in (1). (1) BILABIAL ALVEOLAR VELAR VOICELESS p t k VOICED...arbitrary. (3) For example, the voiced bilabial is variously realized as [[beta...for the Aita dialect (274). (2) BILABIAL ALVEOLAR VELAR VOICELESS (STOPS) p...
Coronals and velars: support for Blust.(Squib)(Robert Blust)
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...obstruent system shows a preference for contrasts at the bilabial, alveolar, and velar places. The next most common contrastive...trends. There are three attested stop-system types that lack bilabial stops: we can see examples of these from Cayuga, Wichita...
Variability in apraxia of speech: a perceptual, acoustic, and kinematic analysis of stop consonants.(Case study)
Magazine article from: Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...velocity for alveolar stops and variable displacement and reduced velocity for bilabial stops for the AOS speaker when compared to the control speaker. For bilabial stops, spatiotemporal index and labial coordination were more variable for the...
Coronal and velar softening in Spanish: theoretical, historical and empirical evidence of lexicalization.
Magazine article from: Southwest Journal of Linguistics; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...conceptive' `concept' Harris's (1969) analysis assumes that [p] (a voiceless bilabial stop) is underlying and is laxed to [b] (a voiced bilabial stop) by rule, and that the bases are diacritically marked [+S], mnemonic for SPECIAL...
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2001. Sourcebook on Tomini--Tolitoli languages: General information and word lists.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Petapa variety of Taje the phoneme written v was recorded as voiced bilabial fricative from two speakers, as the glottal fricative [h] from another, and as a voiceless bilabial fricative from still another (69); in some of the Tomini languages...