postpalataladj.n.
/ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpalətl/, /ˌpəʊs(t)pəˈleɪtl/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpælədl/ A. adj.
1. Anatomy and Zoology. Situated behind or posterior to the palate or the palatine bones. Formerly spec.: †designating a pterygoid bone in certain vertebrates (obsolete).
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1853 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 143 293 The post-palatal canal opens obliquely forwards by a foramen situated a little in advance of the middle of the palatal plate of the maxillary.
1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 192 Distance from posterior rim of alveola of incisor to post-palatal notch.
1959 Evolution 13 290/2 The shortness and greater relative breadth of skull of northeastern wolves also shows up in a scatter diagram..of postglenoid breadth (W4) and postpalatal length (L5).
1996 European Jrnl. Orthodontics 18 557 The width of the oropharynx was significantly narrower in this group, particularly in the post-palatal region.
2. Phonetics. Articulated with the tip or middle of the tongue against the hard palate.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [adjective] > palatal
palatine1656
linguapalatal1668
palatal1668
palatic1669
linguopalatal1818
anterior1830
soft1832
mouillé1833
palato-dental1844
palatalized1872
palato-velar1895
postpalatal1898
medio-palatal1900
clear1918
alveolo-palatal1928
lamino-palatal1966
1898 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 13 23 C maintained its articulation as a pure post-palatal or medio-palatal stop until the seventh century.
1902 E. W. Scripture Elements Exper. Phonetics xvii. 297 Roof articulations are indicated by the names..pre-, medio-, postpalatal.
1942 B. Bloch & G. L. Trager Outl. Ling. Anal. 15 Different points of articulation are designated by the terms prepalatal, mediopalatal, and postpalatal, indicating that the front [of the tongue] touches or approaches respectively the anterior, the middle, or the posterior part of the hard palate.
1988 Current Anthropol. 29 450/1 Kw and gw denote post-palatal stops with lip-rounding (labio-velars).
B. n.† 1. Anatomy and Zoology. A bone situated behind the palate, or in the posterior part of the palate; spec. a pterygoid bone in certain vertebrates. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > bones of mouth
os hyoides1578
palatines1623
palate bone1688
hyoid bone1763
tongue-bone1841
palatal bone1842
glossohyal1854
palatopterygoid1854
palatal1859
os hyoideum1869
mentomeckelian1871
postpalatal1871
hyoid1872
hyomandibular1873
interhyal1888
splanchnocranium1907
1871 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 161 168 The small knuckle in front of the bend in the palatal has now become a spur..so that there are now three regions to the palatal, namely the suspensorial or ‘suprapalatal’, the ‘prepalatal’, and the postpalatal.
1890 Cent. Dict. Post-palatal, a postpalatal bone; a postpalatine.
2. Phonetics. Any of the sounds produced by contact between a part of the tongue and the hard palate.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [noun] > palatal
palatine1697
palatial1792
palatal1817
linguopalatal1818
palato-dental1844
postpalatal1899
prepalatal1900
palatic1904
palato-alveolar1971
1899 W. Rippmann tr. W. Vietor Elem. Phonetics 67 The gutturals (more strictly: postpalatals or velars).
1925 P. Radin tr. J. Vendryes Language i. i. 23 We distinguish..the pre-palatals and the post-palatals.
1959 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 22 317 Final plosives were invariably voiced. This is true not only of the labials, as in eldeb, where there is no alternative, since p is not a Mongolian sound, but also of the dentals, as in t'erged and the post-palatals, as in burk'ig (for bürk'ig).
1988 Current Anthropol. 29 451/2 The treatment of Proto-Indo-European post-palatals and labio-velars.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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