to palatalize
- verb
- /ˈpælətəˌlaɪz/
- Specialized
:
palatalizar
- Okazaki et al. reported that the maxillary arches of children who exhibited palatalized articulations were narrow, short, and shallow compared with those of other groups of children.
- palatalized consonant
- palatalized articulation
Examples
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Thus, in Craddock's view, the offglide of *-oina could never have both palatalized n and remained to participate in the oi > we substitution.
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Thus, when the s- of Proto-Ibero-Romance siringa was palatalized, both its phonetic and phonemic form became /s/. 17
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For instance, why would I have palatalized 1, s, t in Spanish, but only 1 and s in Portuguese?
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And why should I have palatalized both s and z in Portuguese, but only the former in Castilian?
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A. Alonso, for example, notes that 18 sometimes palatalizes before non-front vowels and sometimes fails to palatalize before front vowels.
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We are faced with a similar, though slightly different enigma than that pointed out by Craddock: How could j both palatalize the preceding n, yet remain long enough, in this case, to be metathesized into the preceding syllable?
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Okazaki, Kato, and Onizuka (1991) studied "palatalized articulation" in Japanese-speaking children.
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Likewise, in my view of the present problem, n could have only been palatalized in the environment nj, and therefore, the segment -oina would never have led to the palatalization of n, only to the substitution of the diphthong oi by we.
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Okazaki et al. (1991) also reported reduced anterior-to-posterior maxillary arch width ratios for children with CLP who produced palatalized articulations as compared with controls.
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In some dialects, speakers tend to palatalize consonants when followed by front vowels.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word palatalize comes from the Latin root palatum, which means 'palate' or 'roof of the mouth', and you can see the same idea in the English word palate. So to palatalize a sound is to say it by moving the tongue toward the roof of the mouth, which changes how the sound feels and sounds.
