labialize
/'leibiəlaiz/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To pronounce a sound with the lips rounded: In phonetics, to articulate a speech sound, typically a consonant, by bringing the lips together or rounding them, thereby modifying the sound's quality.
Usage
- The primary use of 'labialize' is in the technical field of phonetics and linguistics. It describes a specific articulatory gesture where the lips are rounded during the production of a sound. This action can be a primary feature of a sound (e.g., the [w] sound) or a secondary articulation added to another sound (e.g., a labialized velar consonant like [kʷ]).
Examples
- Verb:
- Some speakers unconsciously labialize the 's' sound.
- To produce the sound [ʃ] (as in "she"), you must labialize it slightly.
- The phonetician asked the student to labialize the velar stop.
Advanced Usage
- Linguistic Context: 'Labialize' often appears in discussions of co-articulation, where a sound is produced with two points of articulation. For example, a labialized consonant has its primary place of articulation (e.g., the velum for [k]) and a secondary labial (lip-rounding) articulation.
- The term "labialized" is used to transcribe sounds with the superscript [ʷ], as in [tʷ].
Variants and Related Words
- Labialization (n): The act or result of labializing a sound; the state of being labialized.
- Labialization is a common feature in many West African languages.
- Labialized (adj): Describing a sound that is pronounced with lip-rounding.
- The labialized velar plosive is written as [kʷ].
- Delabialize (v): To remove or lose labialization from a sound.
- Over centuries, some sounds delabialize.
Synonyms
- Round (one's lips): A less technical phrase for the articulatory action.
- You need to round your lips to labialize that vowel.
Antonyms
- Spread (the lips): To articulate a sound with the lips stretched, as in a smile (e.g., for the vowel [i:] in "see").
- Delabialize: To pronounce a sound without lip-rounding.
Verb
- pronounce with rounded lips