1. having undergone the removal or loss of lip rounding or labial articulation in pronunciation
Usage: linguistics; phonetics

1. past tense and past participle of delabialization; to remove or lose labial features from a sound
Usage: linguistics; phonetics

Examples

• In some dialects, the labialized consonant was delabialized over time.
• The linguist noted that the vowel had been delabialized in the modern pronunciation.
• When the sound delabialized, speakers no longer rounded their lips during articulation.
• Delabialized consonants are common in certain phonological systems.
• The historical sound change delabialized several key phonemes in the language family.