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labialization

noun

Etymology

From labialize + -ation or labial + -ization.

Definitions

  1. A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or…

    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
    • 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)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for labialization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA