palatalized in English

verb
1
make (a speech sound) palatal, especially by changing a velar to a palatal by moving the point of contact between tongue and palate further forward in the mouth.
These transformations have led, in fact, to some of the most distinguishing characteristics of the different branches of the IE family (e.g. the ‘soft’ palatalized consonants in the Slavic languages).
verb
    palatalise

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1. Sometimes palatalized alveolars or dentals can be analyzed in this manner as well.

2. All consonants near the front vowel can be regarded as palatalized variphones to make oppositions to those near the central and back vowels in Mongolian Chakhar patois.

3. "Before a pause, /N/ is a uvular ; it assimilates to the place of articulation of a following stop, affricate, or nasal". "/Q/ becomes a phonetic copy of a following obstruent". /s, z/, /t, d/, /n/, /h, b/, /p/, /m/, and /r/ could be palatalized.

4. Ladefoged and Maddieson characterize the alveolo-palatals as palatalized postAlveolars (palato-Alveolars), articulated with the blade of the tongue behind the alveolar ridge and the body of the tongue raised toward the palate, whereas Esling describes them as advanced palatals (pre-palatals), the furthest front of the dorsal consonants