labialization

English

Alternative forms

• labialisation

Etymology

labialize +‎ -ation or labial +‎ -ization

Noun

labialization (countable and uncountable, plural labializations)

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

   • 2013, Bülent Gül, Ferruh Ağca, Faruk Gökçe, editors, Bengü Bitig. Dursun Yıldırım Armağanı‎^[1], page 551:

     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)

Translations

secondary articulatory feature

• Catalan: labialització (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: labialisaatio (fi)
• French: labialisation (fr) f
• Galician: labialización (gl) f
• German: Labialisierung (de) f
• Hungarian: labializáció, ajakkerekítésessé válás
• Italian: labializzazione (it) f
• Polish: labializacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: labialização f
• Russian: лабиализа́ция (ru) f (labializácija)
• Spanish: labialización (es) f
• Swedish: labialisering c
• Vietnamese: môi hoá

See also

• labialisation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• roundedness
• delabialization