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Definition of Labialise
1. Verb. Pronounce with rounded lips.
Generic synonyms: Articulate, Enounce, Enunciate, Pronounce, Say, Sound Out
Literary usage of Labialise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to the Science of Mythology by Friedrich Max Müller (1897)
"We know now that there is a whole class of languages which never labialise or
... languages do not labialise their gutturals, these gutturals have the same ..."
2. On Early English Pronunciation: With Special Reference to Shakespeare and by Alexander John Ellis, William Salesbury, Johann Andreas Schmeller, Francis James Child, Alexander Barclay, Johan Winkler (1874)
"W did not act on the following a to labialise it, so that wand ¡and, war» »ears,
are perfect rhymes («send lined, ..."
3. A Handbook of Phonetics by Henry Sweet (1877)
"294. Partial closure of the mouth is a common English peculiarity. It has a
tendency to labialise back vowels, and even where there is not actual ..."
4. On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and by Alexander John Ellis, Francis James Child, William Salesbury, Alexander Barclay, Johann Andreas Schmeller, Johan Winkler (1875)
"But owing to the labial final, the tendency to labialise the first element is
more marked (597, rf'). Our (su, ah«, o«) must be considered as ..."
5. On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and by Alexander John Ellis, Francis James Child, William Salesbury, Johann Andreas Schmeller, Alexander Barclay, Johan Winkler (1869)
"After a consonant the real effect of oi, at present, is generally to labialise
that consonant and subjoin (a, a), as roi, ..."
6. The Philological Uses of the Celtic Tongue by William Duguid Geddes (1874)
"In the word for cough, the K-sound is preserved in Sanskrit, Gaelic, and Lithuanian,
while Welsh and Greek labialise, and its old friend the Latin ..."
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