noun
- the quality or state of being labial; the characteristic of involving the lips in speech sound production
Usage: linguistics, phonetics
Examples
- The labiality of the consonant /p/ is evident in how the lips close to produce the sound.
- Linguists study labiality as one of the key features that distinguish different consonant sounds.
- The degree of labiality varies across different languages and dialects.
- In phonetic analysis, labiality is classified as a place of articulation feature.