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Labiodental Flaps in Mangbetu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Didier Demolin  and
Bernard Teston
Didier Demolin
Affiliation:
Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 175, Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium, e-mail: ddemoli@ulb.ac.be
Bernard Teston
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence, 29 avenue Robert Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France, e-mail: teston@lpl.univ-aix.fr
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Labiodental flaps exist in several African languages, and were first described by Doke (1931) in a study of Shona. Westermann and Ward (1933: 76) quote data from Tucker, who notes labiodental flaps in Kreish, a Central Sudanic language of the Sara-Bongo-Baguirmi group. In the same group of languages, Thomas (1981: 262) claims to find them in Bongo-Gberi and in Binga-Kara. Thomas defines these sounds as “vibrantes labiodentales” (see also Caprile 1981: 238). Hoffman (1963) and Ladefoged (1964) both identify these sounds in Margi. Cloarec-Heiss (1981: 225) reports such sounds in Banda, but describes them as “labiodentales lâches”, transcribed [ǔ]. Maddieson (1984) quotes two sounds of this type in the UPSID data base, one in Margi and the other in Gbeya.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , December 1996 , pp. 103 - 112
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1996

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