Labialise (Verb)
Meaning
Pronounce with rounded lips.
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The tourists found it difficult to labialise the indigenous tribe's words, often resulting in hilarious miscommunications.
- She carefully instructed her student to labialise the 'u' sound in the French word 'lune' to achieve perfect pronunciation.
- The child struggled to labialise the lip sound in 'woo', resulting in an adorable mispronunciation.
- Linguists observe that some languages require one to labialise certain consonants to convey the correct meaning.
- Pronunciation coaches often teach students to labialise vowel sounds in certain dialects of Italian.