buccalization
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buccalization (uncountable)
- (phonetics) The process of a speech sound becoming buccal.
- Antonym: debuccalization
- 1975, Eric H. Lenneberg, Elizabeth Lenneberg, Foundations of language development: a multidisciplinary approach:
- Although buccalization of nasal vowels is the phenomenon most often observed, nasalization of oral vowels is not uncommon.
- (orthodontics) The procedure of moving teeth towards the buccal (cheek) side of the arch.