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Conlangery SHORTS #28: Fuzzy Phonetics
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The Role of Lip Rounding in Speech Processing
In English, the consonant shh is almost always rounded. Linguists never transcribe it with a rounding diacritic because it's not affected by any rule. The theory is that the lip rounding enhances the distinction between shh and vowels.
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