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Encyclopedia > Voiced bilabial plosive

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The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is b, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the letter "b" in boy. The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... HTML has been in use since 1991 (note that the W3C international standard is now XHTML), but the first standardized version with a reasonably complete treatment of international characters was version 4. ... The Extended SAM Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at the University of London. ... Kirshenbaum, sometimes called ASCII-IPA, is a system used to represent the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in ASCII. It was developed for Usenet, notably the newsgroups sci. ... Image File history File links To play the audio file do not click on the image. ... Image File history File links Voiced_bilabial_plosive. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-07-20, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... One might be looking for the academic discipline of communications. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... The Extended SAM Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at the University of London. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

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Features

Features of the voiced bilabial plosive:

In speech there are different ways of producing a consonant. ... A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract. ... In speech, consonants may have different places of articulation, generally with full or partial stoppage of the airstream. ... In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips. ... Lips (upper and lower) are the red (or pink or brown) and soft edges covering the human mouth. ... Phoneticians define phonation as use of the laryngeal system to generate an audible source of acoustic energy, i. ... An oral consonant is a consonant sound in speech that is made by allowing air to escape from the mouth. ... A central or medial consonant is a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. ... In phonetics, initiation is the action by which an air-flow is created through the vocal tract. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... The lungs flank the heart and great vessels in the chest cavity. ... The space between the vocal cords is called the glottis. ...

In English

[b] is one of the few phonemes in English that has a one-to-one correspondence with a letter. It is always denoted by "b", and excluding a handful of words that are spelled with a silent "b" (e.g. doubt and lamb), it is always pronounced [b]. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...


In other languages

In many languages, such as German or Russian, a final letter b is pronounced soundless, as [p] or [b̥]. The voiceless bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...


Greek

In Ancient Greek, the letter β was pronounced [b], but it is now pronounced [v]. Modern Greek [b] (mostly in loan words) is spelled μπ (mp). Beta (upper case Î’, lower case β) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. ... The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...


Spanish

Spanish has [b]. It is denoted by "b", as in bombero (firefighter). In many dialects, it may also be denoted by a word-initial "v", as in veinte (twenty). Standard European Spanish uses the sound [β] The voiced bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...


See also


A acoustic phonetics affricate airstream mechanism Alfred C. Gimson allophone alveolar approximant alveolar consonant alveolar ejective fricative alveolar ejective alveolar flap alveolar nasal alveolar ridge alveolar trill alveolo-palatal consonant apical consonant approximant consonant articulatory phonetics aspiration auditory phonetics B back vowel bilabial click bilabial consonant bilabial ejective bilabial nasal...

  Consonants (List, table) See also: IPA, Vowels  
Pulmonics Bilabial Lab'den. Dental Alveolar Postalv. Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyn. Epiglottal Glottal   Non-pulmonics and other symbols
Plosives p b t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k g q ɢ ʡ ʔ  Clicks  ʘ ǀ ǃ ǂ ǁ
Nasals m ɱ n ɳ ɲ ŋ ɴ  Implo­sives  ɓ ɗ ʄ ɠ ʛ
Trills ʙ r • ʀ •  Ejec­tives  pʼ tʼ kʼ qʼ sʼ
Flaps & Taps • • ɾ ɽ • Other laterals  ɺ ɫ
Fricatives ɸ β f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ ʂ ʐ ç ʝ x ɣ χ ʁ ħ ʕ ʜ ʢ h ɦ Co-articulated approximants  ʍ w ɥ
Lat. Fricatives ɬ ɮ • • • Other fricatives  ɕ ʑ ɧ
   Approximants    β̞ ʋ ɹ ɻ j ɰ Affricates  ʦ ʣ ʧ ʤ
Lat. Appr'mants l ɭ ʎ ʟ Co-articulated stops  kp gb ŋm
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Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant. Shaded areas denote pulmonic articulations judged impossible.