Meanings
- not comparableuncommonhuman sciencesNot labial; unrounded or unlabialized.
Newer studies do not offer any solution to the problem. They are even less informative in that they usually just mention the existence of rare labial variants and the quantitative predominance of illabial ones.
2013, Bülent Gül, Ferruh Ağca, Faruk Gökçe, editors, Bengü Bitig. Dursun Yıldırım Armağanı, page 5522 more examples
Lazicius identifies the second part of this interjection with the long high open phoneme y· (as occurring in fy· 'grass'). This interpretation is certainly incorrect since this interjectional ɯ is illabial, whereas y is rounded.
1952, John Lotz, “Vowel Frequency in Hungarian”, in WORD, volume 8, number 3, published 2015, →DOI, page 227More refined analyses show that there are differences in the misperception of certain vowels between children and adults. For example, illabial /e:/ tends to be confused with labial /0:/ in adults' perception...
2001, Charles W. Kreidler, editor, Phonology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Volume 6, page 142
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