verb🔗Share腭化, 颚音化 To 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"."大多数英语使用者在说“nature”这个词的时候,会把字母“t”发成带颚音的音,也就是让舌头更贴近上颚。phoneticslanguagelinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share腭化,顎音化. (unaccusative, of a sound) To be pronounced with the tongue against the palate."In some dialects, the 'k' sound in "skin" palatalizes before the 'i', becoming closer to a 'ky' sound. "在一些方言中,“skin”这个词里的“k”音在“i”音前会发生腭化,听起来更接近“ky”的音。languagephoneticslinguisticssoundChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading