Voiced labiodental affricate
| Voiced labiodental affricate | |
|---|---|
| b̪v | |
| Audio sample | |
A voiced labiodental affricate ([b̪͡v] in IPA) is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as a voiced labiodental stop [b̪] and released as a voiced labiodental fricative [v].
Features
Features of the voiced labiodental affricate:
- Its manner of articulation is affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then allowing air flow through a constricted channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
- There are two variants of the stop component:
- bilabial, which means it is articulated with both lips. The affricate with this stop component is called bilabial-labiodental.
- labiodental, which means it is articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.
- The fricative component of this affricate is labiodental, articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.
- Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
- It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
- The airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect[1] | vèès | [b̪͡vɛːs] | 'screw' | Labiodental; occasional allophone of /v/; distribution unclear.[1] |
| Italian | Some central-south dialects[2] | in vetta | [iɱˈb̪͡vet̪t̪ä] | 'at the top' | Labiodental; allophone of /v/ after nasals.[2] See Italian phonology |
| Luxembourgish[3] | Kampf am Ënnergrond | [ˈkʰɑmb͡v ɑm ˈənɐɡʀont] |
'underground battle' | Occurs only word-finally before words beginning with vowels (when pronounced without a pause between them) in German loanwords.[3] See Luxembourgish phonology | |
| Ngiti[4] | abvɔ | [āb̪͡vɔ̄] | 'thorny vine' | Less commonly [b͡β][5] | |
| Tsonga | XiNkuna dialect | shilebvu | [ʃileb̪͡vu] | 'chin' | |
Notes
- ^ a b Peters (2010), p. 240.
- ^ a b Canepari (1992), p. 71.
- ^ a b Gilles & Trouvain (2013), pp. 72–73.
- ^ Kutsch Lojenga (1992), p. 31.
- ^ Kutsch Lojenga (1992), p. 45.
References
- Canepari, Luciano (1992), Il MªPi – Manuale di pronuncia italiana [Handbook of Italian Pronunciation] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, ISBN 88-08-24624-8
- Gilles, Peter; Trouvain, Jürgen (2013), "Luxembourgish" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 43 (1): 67–74, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000278
- Kutsch Lojenga, Constance (1994), Ngiti: a Central-Sudanic language of Zaire, Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, ISBN 978-3-927620-71-1
- Peters, Jörg (2010), "The Flemish–Brabant dialect of Orsmaal–Gussenhoven", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 40 (2): 239–246, doi:10.1017/S0025100310000083
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