verb🔗ShareTo pronounce a sound with the tongue against the palate of the mouth when that sound normally would not be so pronounced."Most English speakers palatalize the letter t in the word "nature"."phoneticslinguisticslanguagesoundChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share(unaccusative, of a sound) To be pronounced with the tongue against the palate."The 'k' in "kind" sometimes palatalizes before a front vowel sound, becoming almost like a "ch" sound. "phoneticslinguisticslanguagesoundChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
