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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tendency to labial pronunciation—that is, to change articulate sounds to labials or to labiodentals; labialization.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Phonetics) The quality of being labial; ; conversion into a labial, as of a sound which is different in another language.
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- noun medicine A form of
stammering characterized byconfusion in the use of thelabial consonants .
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