• kometes@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        It’s funnier with the Greek letter.

        Also, the vid you linked says “labial to labial” but as a American English speaker, I have never two-lipped an F sound. Top lip is on my teeth…

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          8 hours ago

          That’s my point. “F” should be labiodental, “ph” should be bilabial. It’s not the “accepted” way, that phoneme doesn’t really exist in English, but it should.

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            7 hours ago

            Interesting. Can you record yourself saying “photograph” with two bilabial [Φ]s?

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              7 hours ago

              Not really keen on sharing my voice online. It sounds almost identical, just a little softer. You can try it yourself: wherever there’s a “ph”, put your lips together as if it were a “p”, then separate them the tiniest bit and push air through like an “f”.

              Kinda like you’re blowing off soup, but without pursing your lips. I think it’s basically like the embouchure for a single reed woodwind.

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            8 hours ago

            the voiced bilabial fricative is /m/

            how do you make an /f/ sound- voiced or not - with your lips closed?

            edit: nvm, I watched the video, it’s for non-english speakers and doesn’t really work without releasing into a vowel.