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[labial]

[labial]. An Animated and Narrated Glossary of Terms used in Linguistics presents. Basic Idea. The word “labial” comes from a Latin word labium , meaning lip . is a phonological feature .

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  1. [labial] An Animated and Narrated Glossary of Terms used in Linguistics presents

  2. Basic Idea • The word “labial” comes from a Latin word labium, meaning lip. • is a phonological feature. • It is used as a distinctive feature for distinguishing different phones/phonemes/segments. • It is also used as a distinctive feature for capturing a natural class of segments. [labial]

  3. Definition Definition A phone/phoneme X is [labial] if in the articulation of X one or both lips are involved. By the definition given, • Consonants such as [p, b, m, f, v] are [labial] • Vowels such as [u, o] are [labial] • The glide [w] is [labial]

  4. [labial] as a natural class • Across languages (like Cantonese, Tulu and Mafa), one can see the feature [labial] at work. Cantonese /sai sɐm kɐk mn/ The labiality of [m] triggering /k/  [p]  [sai sum kɐp mn] “turn over a new leaf” wash face heart change

  5. [labial] as a natural class kappu “blackness” uccu “snake” ï = accusative suffix ï u [labial] • The accusative suffix / ï / becomes rounded (i.e. [labial]) if • it is immediately preceded by a [labial] C or • the nearest preceding V is [labial] Tulu (Kenstowicz 1994:462) kattï “bond” Slide 5

  6. [labial] as a natural class Mafa (Ettlinger 2004) təbakw “nodule” təkwats “to hang” kʷetʃepe “anthrax bacterium” kʷaɗak “to whiten” Vowel become [labial] if there is a [labial] consonant after it.  tubokw  tukwatz Nothing happens to all vowels which are preceded by a labialized consonant The translation of the above items was originally written in French. Thanks to Stephen R. Anderson and Suki Yiu for translating the French into English.

  7. The End Wee, Lian-Hee and Winnie H.Y. Cheung (2009) An animated and narrated glossary of terms used in Linguistics. Hong Kong Baptist University.

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