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labiodental

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la·bi·o·den·tal (lb--dntl)
adj.
1. Relating to the lips and teeth.
2. Articulated with the lower lip and upper teeth, as the sounds (f) and (v).
labiodental
[lā′bē·ōden′təl]
Etymology: L, labium, lip, dens, tooth
1 pertaining to the labial, or lip-facing, surfaces of the 12 anterior teeth.
2 pertaining to the sounds of speech that require a special coordination of teeth and lips, such as /f/ and /v/.


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The speech pattern, called a labiodental approximant, can be corrected through coaching.
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the voicing of the labiodental spirant between voiced sounds".
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To some extent, the opposition was preserved in the early Mercian material, in Epinal and Erfurt Glossaries (dated no later than 700) and Corpus Glossary (late 8th century) (5) where the voiceless and voiced variants were made distinct in spelling: <f> was used to represent [v] (in voiced environment) and <b> represented [[beta]], the former--a labiodental allophone of /f/, the latter--an allophone of /b/ which only later developed into a labiodental fricative [v], e.
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