Labialization

Quick meaning: Labialization is a noun meaning (phonology) A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or rounding of the lips (labia) during pronunciation.

Meaning

(phonology) A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or rounding of the lips (labia) during pronunciation.

Example Sentences

These labialized stops are of course nothing but positionally determined allophones of the [t] and the [k] phoneme, and their labialization is non-distinctive

The second question concerns the reasons for the labialization of this suffix in [1.3] - in the case of artukluk one immediately thinks of an assimilation (*u - ı > u - u)

Word Forms

• labializations
• labialisation

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include labial, linguolabial, bilabial, labiodental, lingualization, labiovelar.

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