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delabialization

noun

the pronouncing of a sound without lip rounding.

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Word length
15
Starts with
D
Ends with
N
Contains
EL
Scrabble score
27
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

Meaning

Definitions

noun

  1. the pronouncing of a sound without lip rounding.

    “Historically, phonemic schwa seems to have developed by delabialization and denasalization of a low, back, rounded and nasalized vowel.”

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Historically, phonemic schwa seems to have developed by delabialization and denasalization of a low, back, rounded and nasalized vowel.
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