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Labialization

noun

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

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

Etymology

From labialize + -ation or labial + -ization.

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