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Definition of palatalize in English: palatalize(British palatalise) verb ˈpalətəlʌɪzˈpælədlˌaɪz [with object]Phonetics 1Make (a speech sound) palatal, especially by changing a velar to a palatal by moving the point of contact between tongue and palate further forward in the mouth. 〔语音〕使（语音）腭化；使腭音化 the sound is palatalized in some dialects Example sentencesExamples - Palatalized and plain consonants do not contrast in words with non-pharyngeal vowels.
- Such consonants are phonetically palatalized, and in the International Phonetic Alphabet they are indicated by a superscript 'j'.
- It has the soft, palatalized value /s/ before e, i, y: cell, city, cite, cycle, fancy.
- Elsewhere, when followed by unstressed i and another vowel, t is commonly palatalized to produce the voiceless palato-alveolar fricative sh sound.
- These transformations have led, in fact, to some of the most distinguishing characteristics of the different branches of the IE family (e.g. the ‘soft’ palatalized consonants in the Slavic languages).
- 1.1no object (of a speech sound) become palatal.
（语音）腭化；腭音化 the frontal allophone of ‘g’ appears to have palatalized first Example sentencesExamples - In reality k palatalized first into k@.
- The view that it is these clusters that palatalized first is supported by Rumanian data.
Derivativesnoun ˌpalətəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n Phonetics For example, in Jamaican Creole the palatalization of /k/ and /g/ as in /kyar/ ‘car’ and /gwain/ ‘going’ were customary in some of the varieties of British English transported to Jamaica in the eighteenth century. Example sentencesExamples - Linguistically, palatalization is a phonological process in which a sound takes on a palatal place of articulation usually in assimilation to a neighboring palatal sound such as /i/ and /y/.
- Palatalization inhibited across phrase boundaries, and palatalization at word boundaries provides syntactic boundary cues to speakers of American English.
- Investigation of the social distribution of palatalization shows that women's speeches reflect frequent and advanced palatalization, while men's do not.
- The phenomenon of palatalization is the single most important phonetic phenomenon of the Modern Greek language.
Definition of palatalize in US English: palatalize(British palatalise) verbˈpælədlˌaɪzˈpalədlˌīz [with object]Phonetics 1Make (a speech sound) palatal, especially by changing a velar to a palatal by moving the point of contact between tongue and palate further forward in the mouth. 〔语音〕使（语音）腭化；使腭音化 Example sentencesExamples - Such consonants are phonetically palatalized, and in the International Phonetic Alphabet they are indicated by a superscript 'j'.
- Elsewhere, when followed by unstressed i and another vowel, t is commonly palatalized to produce the voiceless palato-alveolar fricative sh sound.
- Palatalized and plain consonants do not contrast in words with non-pharyngeal vowels.
- It has the soft, palatalized value /s/ before e, i, y: cell, city, cite, cycle, fancy.
- These transformations have led, in fact, to some of the most distinguishing characteristics of the different branches of the IE family (e.g. the ‘soft’ palatalized consonants in the Slavic languages).
- 1.1no object (of a speech sound) become palatal.
（语音）腭化；腭音化 the frontal allophone of ‘g’ appears to have palatalized first Example sentencesExamples - The view that it is these clusters that palatalized first is supported by Rumanian data.
- In reality k palatalized first into k@.
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