About The Word Palatal
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Palatal
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What's The Definition Of Palatal?
[n] a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast')
[adj] produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin') [adj] relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the palatine tonsils" Synonyms | Synonyms for Palatal: palatalised | palatalized | palatine | soft Related Terms | Find terms related to Palatal: accented | allophone | alveolar | apical | apico-alveolar | apico-dental | articulated | articulation | aspiration | assimilated | assimilation | back | barytone | bilabial | broad | cacuminal | central | cerebral | check | checked | close | consonant | consonantal | continuant | dental | diphthong | dissimilated | dissimilation | dorsal | epenthetic vowel | explosive | flat | front | glide | glossal | glottal | glottalization | guttural | hard | heavy | high | intonated | labial | labialization | labiodental | labiovelar | laryngeal | lateral | lax | light | lingual | liquid | low | manner of articulation | mid | modification | monophthong | monophthongal | morphophoneme | mute | muted | narrow | nasal | nasalized | occlusive | open | oxytone | palatalized | parasitic vowel | peak | pharyngeal | pharyngealization | pharyngealized | phone | phoneme | phonemic | phonetic | phonic | pitch | pitched | plosive | posttonic | prothetic vowel | retroflex | rounded | segmental phoneme | semivowel | soft | sonant | sonority | speech sound | stop | stopped | stressed | strong | surd | syllabic | syllabic nucleus | syllabic peak | syllable | tense | thick | throaty | tonal | tonic | transition sound | triphthong | twangy | unaccented | unrounded | unstressed | velar | vocable | vocalic | vocoid | voice | voiced | voiced sound | voiceless | voiceless sound | voicing | vowel | vowellike | weak | wide Palatal In Webster's Dictionary \Pal"a*tal\, a. [Cf. F. palatal.]
1. Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal
bones.
2. (Phonetics) Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of
certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk.
\Pal"a*tal\, n. (Phon.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y. |
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