palatalize

VERB
  1. pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate
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How To Use palatalize In A Sentence

  • Palatalized and plain consonants do not contrast in words with non-pharyngeal vowels.
  • In Russian velarized stops contrast with palatalized ones, and velarization is also contrastive in Irish.
  • Soon, though, you begin to recognize that the words you don't understand are in fact English: They palatalize the short e and a when they're in a stressed syllable. Archive 2005-04-01
  • Nostraticists, working with the flawed palatalized model of yore, were in effect sent down a wild goose chase for a very long time. The origin of the Indo-European uvular stop (traditionally the "plain, non-palatalized stop")
  • In reality k palatalized first into k@.
  • The view that it is these clusters that palatalized first is supported by Rumanian data.
  • When followed by l the history of f was like that of c and g: the result for all three was a palatalized l which soon began to be represented by ll (approximate to li in English "filial": flamma, Span. llama, clamare, Span. llamar, etc.). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • Such consonants are phonetically palatalized, and in the International Phonetic Alphabet they are indicated by a superscript 'j'.
  • Even if we reinterpret IE *ḱ and *k as I suggested earlier, a question still remains: Why did Satem dialects choose to push PIE's plain *k forward and palatalize it instead of the simpler option, to merge *k and *ḱ together as plain stops? Language waves and the satem innovation in PIE
  • As if this isn't enough, even though his revisal of the phonology is fundamentally flawed with the basic data available to us, he goes on to add that chi is not a palatalized velar as his proposed pattern would suggest, but a velar fricative /x/. Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe
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