Besides labial consonants ( ) that are iotated, coronal consonants (, see below on ) and affricates ( ) and their clusters can be said to undergo "'palatalization " '.
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Baby words like " papa " and " mama " are common across languages probably because the labial consonants _ those made with the lips _ are among the first that children learn.
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The consonant " n " may also assimilate to the place of articulation of a following consonant, becoming labial before a labial consonant, palatal before a palatal consonant, and velar before a velar consonant.
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In general ( though with some exceptions ), unrounding to did not occur if was preceded by a labial consonant ( e . g .,,, ) and followed by,, or, leaving the modern.
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Under this scheme, there is no feature such as [ dental ], and dental or alveolar consonants are simply modelled as the unmarked counterpart of the labial consonants : [ + anterior ], [-labial ].
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I've a feeling that it is not the only verb ending in a labial consonant to do so, but my Russian is very rusty .-- talk ) 19 : 45, 16 February 2011 ( UTC)
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Manx shares with Scottish Gaelic the partial loss of contrastive palatalisation of labial consonants; thus while in Irish the velarised consonants contrast phonemically with palatalised, in Scottish Gaelic and Manx, the phonemic contrast has been lost to some extent.
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The Roman Emperor Claudius proposed introducing a new letter into the Latin alphabet to transcribe the so-called " sonus medius " ( a short vowel before labial consonants ), which in inscriptions was sometimes used for Greek upsilon instead.
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The open vowels only contrast in a few environments . only occurs after the plain labial consonants and the vowel, the same environment that produces . does not occur after, but does occur elsewhere, so that there is a contrast between and after.
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Also in AAVE and some southern American accents, L-dropping may occur when the sound comes after a vowel and before a labial consonant in the same syllable, causing pronunciations like for " help " and for " self ".
