Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To pronounce as or alter to a palatal sound.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make palatal; change from a guttural to a palatal pronunciation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Phon.) To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb linguistics To
pronounce a sound with the tongue against thepalate of the mouth when that sound normally would not be so pronounced.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate
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Examples
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Even if we reinterpret IE *ḱ and *k as I suggested earlier, a question still remains: Why did Satem dialects choose to push PIE's plain *k forward and palatalize it instead of the simpler option, to merge *k and *ḱ together as plain stops?
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Soon, though, you begin to recognize that the words you don't understand are in fact English: They palatalize the short e and a when they're in a stressed syllable.
Archive 2005-04-01 RICHARD 2005
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