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Dentolabial consonant

Consonants articulated with the upper lip and the lower teeth

Summary

Consonants articulated with the upper lip and the lower teeth

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In phonetics, dentolabial consonants are the articulatory opposite of labiodentals: They are pronounced by contacting lower teeth against the upper lip. The diacritic for dentolabial in the extensions of the IPA for disordered speech is a superscript bridge, , by analogy with the subscript bridge used for labiodentals: thus . These are rare cross-linguistically in non-disordered speech, likely due to the prevalence of dental malocclusions (especially retrognathism) that make them difficult to produce, though the voiceless dentolabial fricative is used in some of the southwestern dialects of Greenlandic.

Dentolabial consonants in the extIPA

The dentolabial consonants listed on the extIPA chart are the following. Complex consonants such as affricates, prenasalized stops and the like are also possible.

The only dentolabial consonant attested in non-disordered speech is the voiceless dentolabial fricative .

IPADescriptionExampleNotesLanguageOrthographyIPAMeaning
voiceless dentolabial nasalfound in disordered speech
voiced dentolabial nasal
voiceless dentolabial plosive
voiced dentolabial plosive
voiceless dentolabial fricativeQassimiut Greenlandictassa aajufffa'there it is'corresponds to and in the standard language
voiced dentolabial fricativefound in disordered speech

References

References

  1. (2021). "Speech adapts to differences in dentition within and across populations". Scientific Reports.
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