Re: Bilabial Lateral Fricative

Bfowol:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:00:51 +0300, Dan Sulani <dansulani@...>
> wrote:
>
> >    While looking over the IPA-CXS chart, I noticed
> >that there seem to be no symbols for a bilabial
> >lateral fricative. This got to me to thinking: what else
> >would you call a sound produced by pressing the
> >lips firmly together and letting the air escape only
> >at one side (corner?) of the mouth. It's bilabial,
> >it sure seems like a fricative, and it's lateral!
> >    I can produce it either on the right side, the
> >left side, or both sides at once (a bilateral bilabial
> >fricative? :-)   ).
>
> Technically it could be called a bilabial lateral - iirc
> Catford mentioned it as a possibility in one of his
> books - but it probably violates some ease-of-production
> criteria to be counted as a likely phoneme.
Such a phoneme (/w/) occurs in the conlang Liva, for reasons of
symmetry.

www.geocities.com/gataspus/liva.htm

--And.