Re: Lips WRT Consonants, Was Re: my iconic alphabet

En réponse à Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>:

>
> When you compared the two sounds, my mouth felt compelled to say them
> aloud, as often happens when I read this mailing list.  :)  While
> listening
> to the difference, I noticed my lips are different too.  In German
> <ch>
> /C/, my mouth is slightly open and my lips are pretty lax.  In
> contrast,
> English <sh> /S/ makes my lips form almost the same position as for
> /u/,
> only slightly less tense.
>
> Is this true for others, or is it a personal eccentricity?
I don't have that personally. My lips have the same position for both sounds.

  If it's
> more
> general, is there some what to IPAify to lip position for a consonant?
>
It looks like you labialise your postalveolar fricatives (that's the usual term
for "rounding the lips as if you were making a u"). It's indicated in IPA by a
superscript w, and in X-SAMPA by [_w].

Christophe.

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