Meaning & use
Labiodental
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Articulated with the lower lip touching or approaching the upper front teeth, as with the sounds /f/ and /v/.
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The consonants 'f' and 'v' are classic examples of labiodental sounds in English.
The linguist demonstrated the labiodental articulation by placing her teeth against her lower lip.
A note on using this word
Labiodental combines the Latin roots 'labium' (lip) and 'dens' (tooth), precisely describing the point of articulation in phonetics.
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