palato-velaradj.
/ˌpalətəʊˈviːlə/, /pəˌleɪtəʊˈviːlə/, U.S. /ˈˌpælədoʊˈvilər/ Phonetics.
Of a speech sound: articulated with the tongue simultaneously or successively touching the palate and velum. Also (occasionally): either palatal or velar.
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palatine1656
linguapalatal1668
palatal1668
palatic1669
linguopalatal1818
anterior1830
soft1832
mouillé1833
palato-dental1844
palatalized1872
palato-velar1895
postpalatal1898
medio-palatal1900
clear1918
alveolo-palatal1928
lamino-palatal1966
1895 P. Giles Short Man. Compar. Philol. ii. viii. 113 Osthoff argues that there were originally three series of guttural consonants [in Indo-Germanic], making the velars which are not followed by u̯ the third intermediate or ‘palato-velar’ series.
1935 W. F. Twaddell On defining Phoneme v. 48 The ‘p-phoneme’ is therefore the sum of all those phonological differentiae which correspond to a bilabial articulation as opposed to alveolar or palato-velar, [etc.].
1964 R. A. Hall Introd. Ling. i. xvi. 96 In the case of French, we can, on the grounds of complementary distribution, bring bilabial and labio-dental together under ‘labial’ position; palatal and velar together under ‘palato-velar’; and fricative and sibilant together under ‘spirant’ manner.
1990 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 35 139 Another source of short vowels is [ə] which is assimilated to a labialized final fricative or raised to [I] acquiring the feature [+high, -back] of a neighbouring palatovelar obstruent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1895