verb
- to pronounce or articulate with rounded lips; to make a sound more labial in character
Usage: linguistics; phonetics
Examples
- In some languages, speakers labialized the vowel to produce a rounder sound.
- The linguist explained how certain consonants are labialized when pronounced with lip rounding.
- When you labialized the /u/ sound, it became more prominent in the word.
- Different dialects labialized different phonemes depending on regional patterns.
- The child gradually learned to labialized the fricative sounds correctly.