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labialization en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From labialize + -ation or labial + -ization.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or rounding of the lips (labia) during pronunciation.
   • These labialized stops are of course nothing but positionally determined allophones of the [t] and the [k] phoneme, and their labialization is non-distinctive 1935, Bernard Bloch, American Speech:
   • 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) 2013, Bülent Gül, Ferruh Ağca, Faruk Gökçe, editors, Bengü Bitig. Dursun Yıldırım Armağanı, page 551:

Forms

Relateds

delabialization · roundedness

Translations (16)

hu labializáció (secondary articulatory feature) · sv labialisering (secondary articulatory feature) · pl uwargowienie (secondary articulatory feature) · it labializzazione (secondary articulatory feature) · ca labialització (secondary articulatory feature) · pt labialização (secondary articulatory feature) · hu ajakkerekítésessé válás (secondary articulatory feature) · pl labializacja (secondary articulatory feature) · fr labialisation (secondary articulatory feature) · vi môi hoá (secondary articulatory feature) · es labialización (secondary articulatory feature) · gl labialización (secondary articulatory feature) · cmn 唇音化 (secondary articulatory feature) · de Labialisierung (secondary articulatory feature) · ru лабиализа́ция (secondary articulatory feature) · fi labialisaatio (secondary articulatory feature)