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unround
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un·round  (n-round)
tr.v. un·round·ed, un·round·ing, un·rounds
To pronounce (a sound) with the lips in a flattened or neutral position.


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For example, the first element of the GOAT vowel has undergone fronting and unrounding over the last several decades.
The less frequent occurrence of o in several dialects is linked to the change of o into u in non-initial syllables, and in the Eastern dialect, to the unrounding of the o in the first syllable, i.
Front-raising of the kind described by Daniellanes (1956) for the lowest front vowel (/a/ in man, bad) has given way to a lower vowel near [a], and the diphthongal variant of /o:/ (as in stone, home), with unrounding and fronting of the nucleus, as described by Gimson (1970), is no longer frequently heard in highly educated or high-status speech.
 
 
 
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