Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A making palatal; a conversion (especially of gutturals) into palatal sounds, as of k into ch, g into j, s into sh.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics, uncountable The state or quality of being
palatalized , ofpronouncing a sound with the tongue against thepalate of the mouth that normally is not. - noun linguistics, countable An instance of pronunciation in which a sound is palatalized.
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Examples
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The -i- neighbouring s also would motivate the later palatalization of the sibilant to ś.
Archive 2010-06-01 2010
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The -i- neighbouring s also would motivate the later palatalization of the sibilant to ś.
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The Altaic forms with word-initial sibilant in place of expected *t- are surely caused by pre-Altaic palatalization before high front vowels as has also apparently occurred in its second person pronominal forms.
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So it seems clear to me that the former is the result of palatalization before /i/, an extremely common phenomenon among languages.
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The names shared between Etruscan and Latin show no such palatalization either in these stops.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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I'd be delighted to know what your solution to this conundrum might be since it assuredly has nothing to do with +front environments or palatalization.
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The Altaic forms with word-initial sibilant in place of expected *t- are surely caused by pre-Altaic palatalization before high front vowels as has also apparently occurred in its second person pronominal forms.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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Rob: "So it seems clear to me that the former is the result of palatalization before /i/, an extremely common phenomenon among languages."
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The names shared between Etruscan and Latin show no such palatalization either in these stops.
Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe 2009
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I never once contested this and that Japanese chi is the result of palatalization is of course an inarguable fact.
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