"and lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium, / palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium"

[larryhammer]

An AKICOLJ request:

Does anyone know the description, in phonetics, of the sound made by flapping the tongue between the lips while breathing through, as in the sound sometimes made while sticking out one's tongue at someone? (My best rendering of that is "blalalalah.") It's not a linguolabial trill, which is blowing raspberry -- where the plosive motion of air drives the vibration of lips on tongue. (Does this even count as a trill, since it's conscious muscle motion?) A voiced linguobilabial flap, maybe?

And is there an IPA symbol for this?

Question is prompted by TBD's pronunciation of "banana" using this (with a flexible number of syllables/trills), as well as the "ribbit" a frog makes.

---L.

Subject quote from "The Elements," Tom Lehrer.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Not these (https://books.google.com/books?id=w2_fjwkp8YcC&pg=PA315&lpg=PA315&dq=voiced+linguolabial+flap,&source=bl&ots=ulkBOK4Rcr&sig=nDfCKsBNN0Mq38flR3eu2JGwXuM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QkYsVaGnCsr5ggTziYHoBQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=voiced%20linguolabial%20flap%2C&f=false), I think, though they're fascinating.

Nine