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Re: linguolabials (was: Re: Hell hath no Fury)

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Thursday, June 14, 2001, 12:29
> >> So the childhood expression of derision (a raspberry) is essentially an >> unvoiced linguolabial trill? > >Well, sort of. The stops involve the top lip, whereas the raspberry >trills the bottom lip. >
kind of OT: Ugh...I feel so silly discussing paralinguistic childhood sounds, but I got the child terminology wrong, what I mean is when you kind of stick out your tongue against the top lip and ... well ... "Bbbbbbbbbbbb", accompanied by a "you can't catch me" or suchlike action. Bleh, this is futile :) Imperative