palatalizev.
/ˈpalətəlʌɪz/, /ˈpalətl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈpælədlˌaɪz/ Phonetics.
1. transitive. To make palatal; to modify into a palatal sound or add a palatal articulation to; esp. to change (a velar consonant) into a palatal sound by moving the point of contact between tongue and palate further forward in the mouth (e.g. transforming /k/ to /c/).
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1869 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. I. i. iii. §4. 204 The older French seem to have generally palatalized the Latin c before a as (kamp) from campus, whence afterwards (champ, shaṅ).
1886 Athenæum 25 Dec. 867/1 In Russian..a vowel like the final ĭ palatalizes the preceding consonant.
1901 N.E.D. at K In old English, the original Teutonic k-sound was already in the earliest times fronted or palatalized before original front vowels.
1991 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 36 33 In the evolution of labial + yod sequences, j, rather than palatalizing or affricating the preceding labial consonant, became strengthened into [dz̆] (or [ts̆]).
2. intransitive. To become palatal; to undergo palatalization.
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1943 E. A. Nida Handbk. Descr. Ling. ii. v. 83 This may be the result of an original e which did palatalize but later this e changed to a and the palatalization remained.
1964 Language 40 28 Cunter does not palatalize before unstressed /a/.., and..Trun does not palatalize before any allophone of /a/.
1997 R. Posner Linguistic Change in French 242 In [fΣ] fait < FACTU the CT cluster may indeed have palatalized as a result of fusion of back and front segments.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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