| Lemma | palatalization |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Bloomfield (1935) |
| Titolo | Language |
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| Citazioni | Once we have obtained some notion of how a phoneme is formed, we may observe various 'modifications' in the way it is produced. [...] The most important of these is 'palatalization': during the production of a consonant the tongue and lips take up, so far as is compatible with the main features of the phoneme, the position of a front vowel, such as [i] or [e]. Consonants are often assimilated to the tongue-position of preceding or following vowels. The commonest case is the assimilation especially of dentals and velars to a following front vowel; this is known as 'palatalization'. |