labialization

English

Alternative forms

• labialisation

Etymology

labialize +‎ -ation

Noun

labialization (plural labializations)

1. (linguistics) A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or rounding of the labia during pronunciation.
   • 1935, Bernard Bloch, American Speech:

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

Translations

labialization

• Galician: labialización (gl) f
• German: Labialisierung (de) f
• Italian: labializzazione (it) f

• Polish: labializacja f

See also

• labialisation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:labialisation