Labialization

Alternative forms

• labialisation

Origin

labialize + -ation

Full definition of labialization

Noun

1. (linguistics) A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or rounding of the labia during pronunciation.
• 1935, Bernard Bloch, American Speech, These labialized stops are of course nothing but positionally determined allophones of the t and the k phoneme, and their labialization is non-distinctive