1. making a speech sound with rounded lips or adding lip rounding to a sound
Usage: linguistics; phonetics

Examples

• The linguist was labializing the vowel sound to demonstrate pronunciation differences.
• Students practiced labializing certain consonants in their phonetics class.
• The dialect shows evidence of labializing back vowels.
• She is labializing the ‘u’ sound more than native speakers typically do.
• The speech therapist focused on labializing techniques for clearer articulation.