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Sagittal section of linguolabial stop. Linguolabials are produced by constricting the airflow between the tongue and the upper lip. They are attested in a number of manners of articulation including stops, nasals, and fricatives, and can be produced with the tip of the tongue (apical), blade of the tongue (laminal), or the bottom of the tongue (sublaminal).
Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator. The two common labial articulations are bilabials , articulated using both lips, and labiodentals , articulated with the lower lip against the upper teeth, both of which are present in English .
Articulations involving the lips can be made in three different ways: with both lips (bilabial), with one lip and the teeth (labiodental), and with the tongue and the upper lip (linguolabial). [3] Depending on the definition used, some or all of these kinds of articulations may be categorized into the class of labial articulations.
The voiced linguolabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents it is d̼ or b̺ .
Its place of articulation is linguolabial, which means it is articulated with the tongue against the upper lip. Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation. It is a nasal consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the nose, either exclusively ( nasal stops ) or in addition to through the mouth.
Ejective-contour clicks, also called sequential linguo-glottalic consonants, are consonants that transition from a click to an ejective sound, or more precisely, have an audible delay between the front and rear release of the click.
The same can be said for genitalia, including the labia, which are the inner and outer folds of the vulva, consisting of four “lips” — the labia minora (inner) and the labia majora (outer ...
Labialization also refers to a specific type of assimilatory process where a given sound become labialized due to the influence of neighboring labial sounds. For example, /k/ may become /kʷ/ in the environment of /o/ , or /a/ may become /o/ in the environment of /p/ or /kʷ/ .