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- noun Plural form of
palatal .
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Examples
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You've got uvulars and velars instead of velars and palatals, which makes sense, but I'm not sure how the rest of your plosives line up with the traditional accounts.
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But the man's reply was a jumbled confusion of palatals lost on the wind.
Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983
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He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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He means that they have no sounds in their language unknown to European organs of speech, all being either palatals or dentals of labials.
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Young children habitually confuse dentals and palatals, thus a child may be heard to say that he has "dot a told."
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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In the _Plesiometacarpi_ this vertical plate is not sufficiently developed to reach the horizontal plate of the palatals.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The first cranial peculiarity is that in _Telemetacarpi_, as a rule, the vertical plate developed from the lower surface of the vomer is prolonged sufficiently downwards and backwards to become anchylosed to the horizontal plate of the palatals, forming a septum completely dividing the nasal cavity into two chambers.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The Limboo language is totally different from the Lepcha; with less of the _z_ in it, and more labials and palatals, hence more pleasing.
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He then asked me to pick out the vowels, the consonants, the flats, the sharps, the aspirates, the labials, the palatals, the dentals, and the mutes.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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Some of my voyageurs laughed outright to hear the Sioux language spoken, the sound of its frequent palatals falling very flat on men's ears accustomed only to the Algonquin.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
cryptofascistbbq commented on the word palatals
–adjective
1. Anatomy. of or pertaining to the palate.
2. Phonetics. articulated with the blade of the tongue held close to or touching the hard palate.
–noun
3. Phonetics. a palatal consonant.
May 20, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word palatals
Not an adjective! Not an adjective! The head word here is palatals, with noun plural ending. This can only be a noun. Parts of speech labels are not meaningless decoration.
May 20, 2009
madmouth commented on the word palatals
one wonders why WordNet put a definition like "a semivowel..." to a plural noun.
May 20, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word palatals
It just doesn't have separate defintions for plurals (although sometimes it does prioritise different definitions for plural forms, e.g. eye vs. eyes).
May 20, 2009