Examples of bilabial

• Most of the initial consonants that preceded the vowel were either bilabial or dental-alveolar and were either stops or fricatives.

• In this case, it is the bilabial nasal from the initial of the plural character men3.

• Both cases involve a preceding alveolar nasal and a following bilabial plosive.

• If a word contains an /m/, will there be another bilabial consonant following in the word?

• For example, the primary gesture for m is the closure of the lips, hence the place of articulation is bilabial.

• I reached back into my undergraduate memory and remembered the phonetic symbol for the bilabial fricative and gave it my own personal phonemic status - /ph/.

• These include bilabial, palatal, and velar fricatives as well as labio-dental glides and glottal stops.

• The cues of the velar stop are, however, preserved in the formant transitions into the following bilabial nasal.

• I coded for place of articulation of preceding segment with bilabial, dental 0 labiodental, alveolar, palatal, and velar.

• In this case, the aperture may vary by degrees of roundness, width, height and protrusion, that may be quite removed from habitual bilabial movement.

• The existence of labiodental fricatives =f= and =v= can be seen as a perceptual obstacle for lenition of both bilabial and dental stops.

• Gesture economy, on the other hand, predicts no interaction in such cases, since bilabial and labiodental sounds involve different gestures.

• The identification of the bilabial approximant with /v/, and the merger of /v/ with /b/ would have led to /aub@/.

• One way of comparing the two approaches, then, is to examine possible interactions between bilabial and labiodental sounds, and between fricatives at different places of articulation.

• Fudge (1969) also reported tendencies in one infant to produce bilabial consonants with back rounded vowels.