voiced bilabial affricate

{{Short description|Consonantal sound}}

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| ipa symbol = bβ

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The voiced bilabial affricate ({{IPA|[b͡β]}} in IPA) is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as a bilabial stop {{IPA|[b]}} and released as a voiced bilabial fricative {{IPA|[β]}}. It has not been reported to occur phonemically in any language.

Features

Features of the voiced bilabial affricate:

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{{oral}}

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Occurrence

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!colspan=2| Language !! Word !! IPA !! Meaning !! Notes

colspan=2| Banjun{{Cite web|url=https://phoible.org/inventories/view/1384|title = Phoible 2.0 -}}

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colspan="2" |Dhao

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rowspan=3|EnglishBroad Cockney{{sfnp|Wells|1982|pp=322-323}}rowspan=3 | rubrowspan=2 | {{IPA|[ˈɹ̠ɐˑb͡β]}}rowspan=3 | 'rub'Sporadic allophone of {{IPA|/b/}}.{{sfnp|Wells|1982|p=323}} See English phonology
Received Pronunciation{{sfnp|Cruttenden|2014|p=172}}Rare allophone of {{IPA|/b/}}.{{sfnp|Cruttenden|2014|p=172}} See English phonology
Scouse{{sfnp|Wells|1982|p=372}}{{IPA|[ˈɹ̠ʊˑb͡β]}}Possible syllable-initial and word-final allophone of {{IPA|/b/}}.{{sfnp|Wells|1982|p=372}} See English phonology
colspan="2" | Shipibo{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=}}boko{{IPA|[ˈb͡βo̽ko̽]}}'small intestine'Possible realization of {{IPA|/β/}}. See Shipibo phonology.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=}}
colspan=2|Ngiti{{sfnp|Kutsch Lojenga|1992|p=31}}{{lang|niy|abvɔ|italic=yes}}{{IPA|[āb͡βɔ̄]}}'thorny vine'Rarely [bβ] more commonly [{{IPA link|b̪v}}]{{sfnp|Kutsch Lojenga|1992|p=45}}

Notes

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References

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  • {{citation

|last=Cruttenden

|first=Alan

|year=2014

|title=Gimson's Pronunciation of English

|publisher=Routledge

|edition=8th

|isbn=9781444183092

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M2nMAgAAQBAJ

}}

  • {{citation

|last1=Valenzuela

|first1=Pilar M.

|last2=Márquez Pinedo

|first2=Luis

|last3=Maddieson

|first3=Ian

|year=2001

|title=Shipibo

|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association

|volume=31

|issue=2

|pages=281–285

|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40852342

|doi=10.1017/S0025100301002109

|doi-access=free

}}

  • {{Cite book

|last=Wells

|first=John C.

|author-link=John C. Wells

|year=1982

|title=Accents of English 2: The British Isles

|place=Cambridge

|publisher=Cambridge University Press

|isbn=0-521-24224-X

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a3-ElL71fikC

}}

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