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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Labialization
Synonyms for "labialization" (31 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 14 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- labialització noun (secondary articulatory feature)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 唇音化 noun (secondary articulatory feature)
Finnish
1 entries- labialisaatio noun (secondary articulatory feature)
French
1 entries- labialisation noun (secondary articulatory feature)
Galician
1 entries- labialización noun (secondary articulatory feature)
German
1 entries- Labialisierung noun (secondary articulatory feature)
Hungarian
2 entries- ajakkerekítésessé válás noun (secondary articulatory feature)
- labializáció noun (secondary articulatory feature)
Italian
1 entries- labializzazione noun (secondary articulatory feature)
Polish
2 entries- labializacja noun (secondary articulatory feature)
- uwargowienie noun (secondary articulatory feature)
Portuguese
1 entries- labialização noun (secondary articulatory feature)
Russian
1 entries- лабиализа́ция noun (secondary articulatory feature)
Spanish
1 entries- labialización noun (secondary articulatory feature)
Swedish
1 entries- labialisering noun (secondary articulatory feature)
Vietnamese
1 entries- môi hoá noun (secondary articulatory feature)
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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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