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labiality

labiality

9.5
Use of the lips when you make a sound with your voice, for example by rounding them
  • noun
  • /ˌleɪbiˈælɪti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : labialidad
  • In phonetics, labiality refers to the quality of speech sounds produced with lip involvement, such as in the letters 'p' and 'b'.
  • effects of labiality
  • significant labiality

Examples

  • A set of measures was designed to capture hypothesized variation over time in /s/ and the effects of labiality and gender.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Results: Spectral balance measures in low-mid and mid-high frequency bands varied over the time course of /s/, capturing the development of sibilance at mid-fricative along with showing some effects of gender and labiality.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Freq showed a significant effect of labiality, but not of gender.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Level DM-H showed significant labiality and gender effects at all three time points.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Fixed effects were labiality (within speakers) and gender (between speakers).

    Academic text (2013)
  • Third, LevelDM-H showed the expected change over time, but the values are confounded with filter effects, a likely explanation for the gender and labiality effects.

    Academic text (2013)
  • In the current data, labiality also affected M2 and L3, but the effect for M2 was of very small magnitude.

    Academic text (2013)
  • There was also a significant context x gender interaction at fricative midpoint and end; similar to the case with AmpDM-LMin, girls showed larger effects of labiality than boys.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Following past work, we predicted that FreqM would decrease with labiality (Iskarous et al., 2011; Jongman et al., 2000; Yeni-Komshian & Soli, 1981).

    Academic text (2013)
  • For AmpDM-LMin, the LME results also showed that labiality was significant at fricative midpoint (see Table 4), but the effect was quite small (around 1 dB on average; cf. Table 3), and speakers varied in the magnitude and direction of the difference.

    Academic text (2013)

Synonyms

labialization
vslabiality
  • Specialized
9.1

Pronouncing a sound with rounded lips

is the lasting property of a sound involving lip shape or articulation

How Labial

labiality
  • Specialized
9.5
labial
  • Specialized
1 8.2
labialization
  • Specialized
9.1

Surface Forms

labiality singular
labialities plural

Morphology

labiality = labial (transparent) = labial + ity

A regular nominalization of the adjective 'labial' with the productive suffix '-ity', yielding 'the quality or state of being labial'.

Etymology

Labiality comes from the Latin root labia meaning 'lip', the same idea behind the word 'lip'. In speech, this word names the way sounds are made with the lips—like the 'p' and 'b' sounds—so labiality means the quality of a sound that uses your lips.