Re: Bilabial / labiodental distinction

Christopher B Wright nevesht:
>
>IPA and X-SAMPA don't give any values for labiodental plosives. However,
>they (the l.d.p.'s) would seem to be pronounceable. Since they don't have
>special values, should I conclude that they just don't sound different
>than their bilabial equivalents? Or is it that the sounds don't appear in
>natlangs?
Doakes(sp?) invented symbols for these in the '20s, the voiceless resembles
a q-p ligature, the voiced a d-b one. This informaton came from the
_The_Phonetic_Symbol_Guide_ 2nd edition, (one the authors is Pullum I forget
the other). It includes all symbols(including diacritics),& meanings, used
by more than one author, or in important works.(The only real problem I
noticed was the old IPA charcter for /z_w/ or /T_w/ is described as 'p with
left hook' or 'o with reversed ogonek' when it should be 'inverted delta'


-Wayne Chevrier


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