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In natural English speech, "labialization" appears in contexts such as: "pretty earrings, a pretty tortoise shell comb in her hair, that sort of thing. The husband pronounced his Rs as Ws, a speech defect called R-labialization, most famously portrayed, of course, by Elmer Fudd.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

IPA/læbɪælɪzæʃən/

Syllablesla·bi·a·li·za·ti·on

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pretty earrings, a pretty tortoise shell comb in her hair, that sort of thing.

The husband pronounced his Rs as Ws, a speech defect called R-labialization,

most famously portrayed, of course, by Elmer Fudd.

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noun

A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or rounding of the lips (labia) during pronunciation.

“These labialized stops are of course nothing but positionally determined allophones of the [t] and the [k] phoneme, and their labialization is non-distinctive”

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