palatalize|palatalized|palatalizes|palatalizing in English
verb palatalize (Amer.)
['pal·a·tal·ize || 'pælətlaɪz]
pronounce with the tongue against the roof of the mouth; alter a sound by pronouncing it with the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth (also palatalise)
Use "palatalize|palatalized|palatalizes|palatalizing" in a sentence
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