Definition
palatalised
adjective
- Pronounced with the tongue raised toward the hard palate; having undergone palatalization.
Usage: linguistics; British spelling (American: palatalized)
verb
- Past tense and past participle of palatalize; to modify (a sound) by raising the tongue toward the hard palate during articulation.
Usage: linguistics; British spelling (American: palatalized)
Examples
- In Russian, the consonant /t/ is palatalised before front vowels.
- The linguist explained how the /k/ sound had been palatalised over centuries.
- Many Romance languages show palatalised consonants that evolved from Latin.
- The child's speech included palatalised sounds that were typical for her dialect.
- Researchers documented how the velar stop became palatalised in the language's evolution.