labialization
Noun
A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or rounding of the lips (labia) during pronunciation.
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These labialized stops are of course nothing but positionally determined allophones of the [t] and the [k] phoneme, and their labialization is non-distinctive
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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)
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labializationslabialisation