The voiced bilabial plosive or stop is a type of
consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are and pronounced with the lips; and pronounced with the front of the tongue; and pronounced wit ...
al sound used in many
spoken languages
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. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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that represents this sound is , and the equivalent
X-SAMPA
The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at University College London. It is designed to unify the individual language SAMPA alphabets, and ...
symbol is
b
. The voiced bilabial stop occurs in
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
, and it is the sound denoted by the letter in ''obey'' (
obeI
).
Features
![Voiced bilabial plosive](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Voiced_bilabial_plosive.svg)
Features of the voiced bilabial stop:
Varieties
Occurrence
See also
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Betacism
In historical linguistics, betacism (, ) is a sound change in which (the voiced bilabial plosive, as in ''bane'') and (the voiced labiodental fricative , as in ''vane'') are confused. The final result of the process can be either /b/ → or ...
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List of phonetics topics
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* Acoustic phonetics
* Active articulator
* Affricate
* Airstream mechanism
* Alexander John Ellis
* Alexander Melville Bell
* Alfred C. Gimson
* Allophone
* Alveolar approximant ()
* Alveolar click ()
* Alveolar consonant
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Voiced oral consonants
Bilabial stops
Pulmonic consonants
Labial–coronal consonants