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The phonetic status of the labial flap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2009

Kenneth S. Olson  and
John Hajek
Kenneth S. Olson
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, 1010 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA e-mail:ken_olson@sil.org
John Hajek
Affiliation:
Department of French and Italian Studies, University of Melbourne, Parkville Vic 3052, Australia e-mail:j.hajek@language.unimelb.edu.au
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The labial flap is a speech sound which has received little attention in the literature. In this paper, we document the articulation of the sound, including audio and video data from Mono (D.R. Congo, Ubangian). The sound is attested in over sixty languages and has been incorporated into the phonological system of at least a dozen of them. The sound is easily describable in terms of values of phonological features or phonetic parameters, and it appears to have arisen independently in at least two regions of the world. These factors argue for the inclusion of the sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , December 1999 , pp. 101 - 114
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1999

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