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Definition of Labiality
1. [n -TIES]
Literary usage of Labiality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1831)
"Not even MATHETES could here prefer the English cacophonous labiality of sound,
to the eliding and ..."
2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1888)
"According to Gröber, with whom I entirely agree, both m and n before a consonant
sound _j 'nh' and not 'm' or ' n,' the labiality, ..."
3. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"... all syllabic vowels, would be more noticeable to those from other areas,
because of its lack of the labiality that characterized the other allophones. ..."
4. 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)
"(won). The method of synthesis must be observed. The labiality of the (w) should
not affect the following vowel, changing (э) into (oh), or (я) into (o) ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"... 2, effect, out, which may bo either (1) living, moving, corresponding to
labiality, or (2) dead, standing, dormant, corresponding to ..."
6. Analytic Orthography: An Investigation of the Sounds of the Voice and Their by Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1860)
"In. passing through the series A, O, U, it will be found that U in pool is labial
in its character, and that this labiality is preserved in shortening foo'l ..."
7. 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)
"In passing through the series A, 0, U, it will be found that U in pool is labial
in its character, and that this labiality is preserved iu shortening fool ..."
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