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Definition of Labializing
1. labialize [v] - See also: labialize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Labializing
| labidometer labidometers labifying labile labile affect |
Literary usage of Labializing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... through an There is reason for "'• believing" that this labializing tendency
ie very old,—as old indeed as the Indo-European language itself. ..."
2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"J. RHYS. characteristics of the P dialects, that is to say, all three of them,,
the labializing of qn into p, of gu into b,1 and the modifying of ù towards ..."
3. The Mechanism of Speech: Lectures Delivered Before the American Association by Alexander Graham Bell (1906)
"... of rotation below the original rate at which the .cylinder was turned, occasions
an effect analogous to that produced by labializing the original sound. ..."
4. The English Dialect Grammar: Comprising the Dialects of England, of the by Joseph Wright (1905)
"This r has a peculiar labializing effect upon a preceding or following vowel.
It is often called the Northumberland burr. In s.Pem. ..."
5. Principles of Greek Etymology by Georg Curtius (1886)
"... that the labial spirant v affixed itself to a particular class of gutturals,
and then exercised in time a retrospective labializing influence. ..."
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