A crosslinguistic lexicon of the labial flap

Abstract

We provide a large sample of the occurrences of the labial flap in the world’s languages, including audio and video data from the Mono dialect of Mid-Southern Banda. This sample provides the evidence for Olson and Hajek’s (2003) crosslinguistic generalizations concerning the articulation, the geographic distribution, the genetic distribution, and the phonological status of the speech sound.

Keywords

• phonology
• Sudanic
• Banda
• flap
• Benue-Congo
• Chadic
• Austronesian
• Mono
• Ubangi
• Adamawa