illabial

English

Etymology

From il- +‎ labial.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈleɪbi.əl/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əˈlæebi.ɯ(l)/
• Rhymes: -eɪbiəl

Adjective

illabial (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, uncommon) Not labial; unrounded or unlabialized.
   • 1952, John Lotz, “Vowel Frequency in Hungarian”, in WORD‎^[1], volume 8, number 3, published 2015, →DOI, page 227:

     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.

   • 2001, Charles W. Kreidler, editor, Phonology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Volume 6‎^[2], page 142:

     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...

   • 2013, Bülent Gül, Ferruh Ağca, Faruk Gökçe, editors, Bengü Bitig. Dursun Yıldırım Armağanı‎^[3], page 552:

     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.

Derived terms

• illabiality