Definition of "palatalization" [palatalization]

• The state or quality of being palatalized, of pronouncing a sound with the tongue against the palate of the mouth that normally is not. (noun)
• An instance of pronunciation in which a sound is palatalized. (noun)

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• "The -i- neighbouring s also would motivate the later palatalization of the sibilant to ś."
• "The names shared between Etruscan and Latin show no such palatalization either in these stops."
• "The Altaic forms with word-initial sibilant in place of expected *t- are surely caused by pre-Altaic palatalization before high front vowels as has also apparently occurred in its second person pronominal forms."