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[
bahy-
ley
-bee-
uh
l
]
bi·la·bi·al
/
baɪˈleɪ
bi
əl
/
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[
bahy-
ley
-bee-
uh
l
]
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Phonetics
adjective
1.
produced with the lips close together or touching: the lips touch at one phase of the production of the bilabial consonants
p, b,
and
m;
they do not for the bilabial
w.
noun
2.
a bilabial speech
sound
.
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voiceless; opposite to sonant
articulation accompanied by an audible puff of breath, as in the h-sound of how or in the release of initial stops, as in the k-sound of key
to change a speech sound to an articulation requiring less effort, as from geminate to nongeminate or from stop to fricative
the audible result of an utterance or portion of an utterance
a frictionless speech sound with only a partial obstruction of the breath stream whose utterance can be prolonged, especially l and r
For the 'l' sound, having front-vowel resonance; situated before a vowel in the same syllable; produced without frication or aspiration
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Origin:
1860–65;
bi-
1
+
labial
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bilabial
(baɪˈleɪbɪəl)
—
adj
1.
of, relating to, or denoting a speech sound articulated using both lips:
(
p
)
is a bilabial stop,
(
w
)
a bilabial semivowel
—
n
2.
a bilabial speech sound
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