bilabial
- adjective
- /bɪˈleɪbiəl/
- Specialized
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bilabial
- In phonetics, bilabial sounds are produced when both lips touch, as in the case of the word 'pan'.
- bilabial stop
- bilabial stop production
- bilabial opening movement
Examples
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The most overt and problematic factors are the absence of bilabial stops /p/ and /b/ and the noticeable lack of labio-dental fricatives /f/ and /v/.
Academic text (1995) -
His vocalizations consisted primarily of schwa-like vowels with occasional consonants that were typically bilabial or velar.
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In older children, the tendency to produce words that begin with bilabial and nasal consonants decreased.
Academic text (2012) -
The three speakers in the study showed active compensatory behavior in bilabial stop production by moving the upper lip further down and the jaw upward.
Academic text (2011) -
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Blog text (3) -
Only superior-inferior articulatory movements were analyzed because this is the primary dimension of movement for bilabial stop consonants.
Academic text (2011) -
Briefly, this technique allows calculation of velopharyngeal port size during the production of bilabial stops by simultaneously detecting the pressure drop across the port along with airflow through the port.
Academic text (2012) -
In this figure, the vertical lines pass through the velocity peaks of the initial bilabial opening movement for the /b/ in boys and the last opening movement for the /p/ in pies to demonstrate segmentation. mm = millimeters; sec = seconds.
Academic text (2011) -
Gracco and Abbs (1985) perturbed the movement of the lower lip by pushing it down unexpectedly with a paddle during bilabial stop production.
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The sounds /p/ and /b/ are examples of bilabial consonants that are made by bringing both lips together.
How Back
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bilabial comes from the Latin parts bi- 'two' and labium 'lip'. It describes a speech sound made by using both lips together, so sounds like /p/ and /m/ are called bilabial.