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单词 palatalize
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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.

    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. 1.1no object (of a speech sound) become palatal.
      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.

Derivatives

  • palatalization

  • noun 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.

    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. 1.1no object (of a speech sound) become palatal.
      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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