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2. Noun. (context: linguistics countable) An instance of pronunciation in which a sound is palatalized. ¹

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Definition of Palatalization

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palatalization

Literary usage of Palatalization

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Sanskrit Phonetics: In Comparison with the Indogermanic Mother by Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck (1898)
"The palatalization-rule. The palatalization-rule concerns the velars aud middle gutturals in general: therefore it is to be treated in a separate paragraph, ..."

2. Ériu by School of Irish Learning (Dublin), Royal Irish Academy (1907)
"palatalization IN a paper on Middle-Irish Declension, published in the Philological Society's Transactions, 1905, Professor Strachan has ..."

3. The Development of Standard English Speech in Outline by James Morgan Hart (1907)
"... as in be-seech seek, or a borrowing, as in kit (Low German), kilt (Scandinavian). §20. palatalization of g. A. With two exceptions, for which see D, ..."

4. The Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland: Its Pronunciation, Grammar by James Augustus Henry Murray (1873)
"... (j) only an auxiliary sign of palatalization, a weakened у as in (kj, gj, dj, sj) ; (j) a full consonantal y as in you (juu) ; (A) or (kj) palatal ..."

5. Scandinavian Influence on Southern Lowland Scotch: A Contribution to the by George Tobias Flom (1900)
"And in the same way palatalization existed in a great many words where it was not ... palatalization of c is quite general. K became palatalized to "c in ..."

6. An Old English grammar by Eduard Sievers (1903)
"3) The criteria which OE. furnishes for the occurrence of palatalization are in ... Here we must especially note : a) The palatalization of initial c, g, ..."

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