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The right to speak about the labialization of the vowel and 

 of the first part of the following consonant in all of these words, 

 instead of considering the exponent iv as an independent sound 

 that separates them, I assume on the ground that in common 

 everyday conversation no such separation really takes place, 

 indeed the «'-element is in numerous cases quite absent; when 

 it is present, it appears as a movement of the lips coincident 

 with the articulation of the sound-group, and the two sounds, 

 especially the vowel, are shghtly modified, but not separated 

 by it; it is but seldom that even a loose î^-position is reached; 

 but on the background of the more open vowel, even the 

 slightest contraction of the lips sounds like a г^'-Ике reduction 

 of the sonority. 



Labialization of consonants, — i. e. with rounded lips from 

 the beginning to the end of the articulation — seems to occur 

 now and then with some variations from fjord to fjord. 1 

 found [k] labialized in the Upernavik Distrikt in words like 

 [ki"'k"'aq\^ , {кг"'к"'а.ГА071о\, usually [кг^'к-атХоцо]-. 



\p] I found labialized in the southern part of the district 

 of Egedesminde, as in [пд^р^щ]'-^ , [Ua^p^dA'af-a'Tpoq] *, 

 otherwise [пдр-щ^ üarc/'dA'ät/SiTpdq]. 



[s\ I found occasionally labialized at Jakobshavn in 

 [s"d-Tm-ak'o\^ [s*'d'nn9ta'"wa]^. In [ajüs'üse']'' , the rounding 

 of the lips during the articulation of the .5-sound seems to have 

 no acoustic effect upon it. 



In § 10 it was remarked that the extremely protruding 

 position of the tongue at the articulation of the point-conso- 



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 (one year old) * he exaggerates '^ why these '■ what is the meaning of that 

 ^ how bad it is. 



