Definition of "palatalized" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of palatalize. (verb)

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• "We know that pronouns and numerals contain the so-called palatalized stops exclusively and yet this is completely counter to the principle of phonological markedness."
• "As if this isn't enough, even though his revisal of the phonology is fundamentally flawed with the basic data available to us, he goes on to add that chi is not a palatalized velar as his proposed pattern would suggest, but a velar fricative /x/."
• "However, labialized stops, palatalized stops and now ejectives seem to me to be purely imaginative overkill, based on nothing concrete."