labialization — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Parole correlate

   roundednessdelabialization

   Esempi

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

   Altri esempi (1)

   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)