| Voiced Bilabial Plosive |
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The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of Consonant al sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English , and it is the sound denoted by the letter "b" in ''boy''. FEATURES Features of the voiced bilabial plosive:
IN ENGLISH is one of the few phonemes in English that has a one-to-one correspondence with a letter. It is always denoted by "b", and excluding a handful of words that are spelled with a silent "b" (e.g. ''doubt'' and ''lamb''), it is always pronounced [b . IN OTHER LANGUAGES In many languages, such as German or Russian, a final letter b is pronounced soundless, as Greek In Ancient Greek , the letter β was pronounced but it is now pronounced Spanish Spanish has [b]. It is denoted by "b", as in ''bombero'' (firefighter). In many dialects, it may also be denoted by a word-initial "v", as in ''veinte'' (twenty). Standard European Spanish uses the sound SEE ALSO |
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