labialization

Noun

labialization (countable and uncountable, plural labializations)

1. A 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-distinctive1935, Bernard Bloch, American Speech
   • 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