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Bilabial Plosive

Figure: 3.5. Bilabial Plosive
a. Description

The soft palate being raised and the nasal resonator shut off. The primary obstacle

to the air-stream is provided by the closure of the lips. Lung air is compressed
behind this closure, durng which stage the vocal cords ar eheld wide apart for /p/,

but many vibrate for all or part of the compression stage for /b/ according to its

situation in the utterance. The air escapes with force when the lip closure is

released.
Example:

/p/

a. FORTIS (Regularly spel with ‘p’, note ‘ hiccough’ [h I k A p]
And silent ‘p’ in “pneumonia [nu:'moʊnɪə], psalm ['sæm], receipt [rɪ'si:t],

cupboard ['kʌbərd], etc

b. ACCENTED, ASPIRATED: /pin, pill, pain, appear, impatient, play, pray/
c. ACCENTED AFTER / s / unaspirated: spin, spill, Spain, spear, spray

d. WEAKLY ACCENTED, RELATIVELY UNASPIRATED : upper, capable,

opportunity, gospel, simply, apricot, champion

e. SYLLABLE FINAL: chip, lip, shape, lap, shape, pulp, pump, upright, chaplain,
upward

f. WITH NO AUDIBLE RELEASE: captain, topcoat, topgirl, ripe cheese

g. FOLLOWED BY NASAL CONSONANT: topmost, happen, halfpenny, cheap

meat

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