Meaning of illabial | Babel Free

Definitions

Not labial; unrounded or unlabialized.

not-comparable, uncommon

Equivalents

Examples

“Lazicius identifies the second part of this interjection with the long high open⟳ phoneme y· (as occurring in fy· 'grass'). This interpretation is certainly incorrect since this interjectional ɯ is illabial, whereas y is rounded.”

“More refined analyses show⟳ that there are differences in the misperception of certain vowels between children and adults. For example, illabial /e:/ tends to be confused with labial /0:/ in adults' perception...”

“Newer studies do not offer⟳ any solution to the problem. They are even less informative in that they usually just mention⟳ the existence of rare labial variants and the quantitative predominance of illabial ones.”

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