Dueling impressions

[Mark A. Mandel]

Wilson says:
I'd expect that the whole /b d g/ series would be affected. It's just
that implosive b rolls most trippingly from the tongue, if implosives
are not native to your speech.
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It's not just that. The lips are at the front of the vocal tract. The air
space behind them is therefore the largest of all the places of
articulation. If you're dropping your jaw for an open vowel while
articulating a stop, the bilabial stop is going to produce the greatest
difference in air pressure versus the atmosphere. This is at least part of
why implosive [b] is the most common implosive in the world's languages than
any other implosive, and implosive [g] is the least common.

-- Mark A. Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]