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Palatalized

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Adjective

1. palatal, palatalised, palatalized

produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as ch' in chin' or j' in gin')

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Palatalized

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verb
(transitive)
to pronounce (a speech sound) with the blade of the tongue touching the palate

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Palatalized

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈpalatalˌized or ˈpalatalˌizing
Phonetics
to articulate as a palatal sound; specif., to change (a nonpalatal sound) into a palatal sound
the original sound represented by t in “nature” has been palatalized to (ch); Russian contains many palatalized sounds

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Palatalized

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tr.v. pal·a·tal·ized, pal·a·tal·iz·ing, pal·a·tal·iz·es
To pronounce as or alter to a palatal sound.

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