labialization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or rounding of the lips (labia) during pronunciation.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "These labialized stops are of course nothing but positionally determined allophones of the [t] and the [k] phoneme, and their labialization is non-distinctive"
- "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)"