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How to pronounce bilabial in English?

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when we speak fast our speech organs
being controlled by muscles are affected
by inertia they cannot always move from
one position straight to another
especially if two adjacent sounds are
made at places far apart in the mouth
in cases like this assimilation can take
place
the word assimilation is derived from
the word similar and it means that one
sound becomes more similar to its
neighbor
one type of assimilation that we've seen
already is in words like tissue tissue
or tissue
so carefully with no assimilation i
could say tissue
or more quickly with assimilation of the
physically difficult
combination or move from syria
then it will become shirt tissue
tissue or tissue
so this assimilation is optional and it
can affect all words containing see
and then followed by a rounded vowel so
like issue and tissue
in words ending in s-i-o-n and t-i-o-n
words like that then the unassimilated
version no longer exists in english and
only the version with shi is possible
station
passion
fashion
ration complication that's the only
version
that's possible
by the way the word fisher
always has sure
it can never be fissure but it can
either end with a schwa fischer in which
case it's homophonous with fischer the
person who fishes
or it could end it or
fisher
but it can never be seer it could ever
be fissure
a similar process can happen when s
ending one word is followed by shh
beginning the next word
this can easily be pronounced shh as
well
bus shelter becoming bus shelter
dress shop
becoming dress shop
spaceship
becoming spaceship
and nice shoes becoming nice shoes
in the same way voiced z's can be
assimilated to voiced
before or yeah followed again by a
rounded vowel sound
cheese shop becoming cheese shop
where's yours becoming where's yours
rose show becoming rose show
and these sheep
these sheep becoming these sheep
another common type of assimilation is a
shift in the place of articulation of
the alveolar sounds
so that their place of articulation
becomes the same as that of a following
consonant
thus we find assimilation from alveolar
to
to bilabial place of articulation before
the bilabials
examples of voiceless alveolar
changing to an unreleased voiceless
bilabial
before the bilabials
so great britain is rarely pronounced
with a properly enunciated
at the end of great
it's more likely in fast speech at least
to be assimilated to a voiceless
unreleased
bilabial
but it's not a properly enunciated pet
sound it's certainly not grape
britain it's great
britain
great britain
not great britain the
sound is unreleased the lips come
together
anticipating the the following but in
britain but they never release so we
have the shape of the bilabial great
britain
great britain
other examples of t being assimilated to
a following bilabial include football
football or football
utmost or
utmost
dust bowl or dust bowl
fruit machine or fruit machine
hitman or hitman
light bulb or light bulb
in all these cases assimilation is
optional and it depends on how carefully
the speaker is speaking
if we're speaking slowly or with
emphasis then assimilation will be less
well there may be none at all
if we're speaking faster or more
carelessly then there will be more
assimilation
some examples with and without
assimilation so without assimilation
i have shown you the utmost respect
i have shown you the utmost respect
and with assimilation
with the utmost respect i simply cannot
agree
with the utmost respect i simply cannot
agree
first we're emphasizing i have shown you
the utmost respect
and in the second we're rather
de-emphasizing with the utmost respect
utmost utmost
in exactly the same way voiced alveolar
can change optionally again to
unreleased voiced bilabial it's a silent
but that never happens before again
before by label um but or put
blood poisoning becoming blood
poisoning blood
poisoning
blood pressure blood pressure broad bean
broad bean
custard powder
custard powder
gold mine
gold mine
old bailey
or bailey
alveolar nasal
changes optionally again to bilabial
nasal um
again before bilabials
brown paper becoming brown paper
chicken breast becoming chicken breast
con man becoming comm man
fan belt
fan belt
queen b
queen b
question mark
question mark
in part
in part
in person
in person
and we can have assimilation from
alveolar to velar place of articulation
so voiceless alveol
can change optionally again to voiceless
unreleased velar
so credit card becoming credit
card credit
and there's the silent k sound doesn't
get released credit card
cut glass becoming cut glass
first class becoming first
class
short cuts becoming shortcut
smart card smart card
shotgun
shotgun
voiced alveolar
can change to unreleased voiced villa
silent
ger just the position of g again before
vela k orga
cold calling
becoming cold calling
had come
had come
had gone
had gone
second class
second class
bad guy
bad guy bridegroom bridegroom
alveolten can change to velar nasal um
before vila cur orga
common ground becoming common ground
golden globe
becoming golden globe
humankind becoming humankind
open court becoming open court
roman catholic
becoming roman catholic
town clark
becoming town clerk
this is a common source of variant
pronunciations in all words which have i
n or u n followed by the letter c
pronounced k
words like include
so we have include or include
inclined or inclined
incompetence or incompetence
uncompromising
uncompromising
unconvincing
unconvincing
unconventional
unconventional
we can have assimilation from alveolar
to labia dental place of articulation
alveolar nasal
can change to labiodental nasal um
when followed by labiodental
information
information
infrequent infrequent
unfortunate
unfortunate
unfit
and fit
in fact in fact
in front
in front
on fire
on fire
in first place
in first place
we can have assimilation from bilabial
to labiodental place of articulation as
well
bilabial nasal um
can also change to the same thing
labiodental nasal um
again when followed by
from foxton
from folkestone it's quite difficult to
say with a proper um from folkestone
from folkestone
from france quite difficult from france
much easier so from folkestone from
france
assimilation is something that should
happen naturally as a result of the
inertia of the speech organs it isn't
something that should be deliberately
done or copied and in more careful
speech it doesn't happen as much as in
fast speech

when we speak fast our speech organs

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bilabial::noun | Spocien Dictionary

bilabial

noun

/baɪ'leɪbiəl/

a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/

Type	Words
Type of	labial, labial consonant

bilabial:: | Spocien Dictionary

bilabial

/baɪ'leɪbiəl/

of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips

Type	Words

bilabial fricatives.

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