noun
- Plural of labialization; the process or result of modifying a speech sound by rounding the lips or adding lip rounding to its articulation.
Usage: linguistics; phonetics
Examples
- In phonetics, labializations are common modifications that affect how consonants and vowels are pronounced.
- The labializations of certain consonants in French create distinct sounds not found in English.
- Linguists study labializations to understand how different languages shape their phonetic inventories.
- The speaker's labializations of the /s/ sound made it sound more like /ʃ/.
- Labializations occur naturally in many languages as a feature of coarticulation.