What are the differences between of consonants of the palatal columns, and there palatalized doubles nʲ, tʲ, dʲ, ʃʲ, ʒʲ, lʲ? Or it is just two writtens for the same sound?

If palatal vs. alveolo-palatal is not a contrast in any language, does that mean there's no point in trying to find a feature that distinguishes the two? Is the choice of /ç/ or /ɕ/ to represent the …

Oct 13, 2020 · The "officially" voiceless alveolar-palatine affricate does not exist in English. But I can clearly hear it in the sentence "Ouch that hurt" (when the computer reads this senten...

Apr 7, 2023 · The sequence palatal velar + u̯/w is not common, but it does pop up here and there, most notably in *h₁ék̑u̯os ‘horse’ and *k̑u̯ō (n) ‘dog’. In the branches where palatovelars …

Apr 24, 2025 · Fernández-Planas & Josefina Carrera-Sabaté, 2003, "Castilian Spanish", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 33 (2), the ‘ch’ sound in Peninsular Spanish is …

The palatal affricates behave otherwise like normal stop consonants; this restriction on /r/ clusters is because palatals are too close to /r/ in the mouth for us to distinguish easily. This is a …

Nov 30, 2023 · [w] (the semivowel of [u]) is labial–velar. [ɥ] (the semivowel of [y]) is labio-palatal. Does the position of the vowel in the mouth play a part in determining its semivowel’s place of …

Dec 8, 2023 · The English post-alveolar affricate definitely does not begin with a palatal plosive.

Jan 11, 2023 · Instead, since coronal, palatal and velar sounds are all articulated with somewhat similar areas of the tongue, "palatalization" of [t] or [k] tends to result in the sound being …

Jun 23, 2022 · Particularly following voiceless stops in stressed syllables, this may lead to friction, resulting in the palatal fricative [ç] rather than a devoiced glide." [ç] is not a phoneme in most …