labialization

plural labializations · alternative labialisation

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

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

   1935, Bernard Bloch, American Speech

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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)

   2013, Bülent Gül, Ferruh Ağca, Faruk Gökçe, editors, Bengü Bitig. Dursun Yıldırım Armağanı, page 551