Palatal

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Palatal \Pal"a*tal\, a. [Cf. F. palatal.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal
        bones.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Phonetics) Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of


        certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Palatal \Pal"a*tal\, n. (Phon.)
     A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the
     palate, as the letters k and y.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  palatal
       adj 1: relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the
              palatine tonsils" [syn: {palatine}]
       2: produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the
          hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near
          the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin') [syn:
          {palatalized}, {palatalised}]
       n : a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like
           the initial sound in the English word `yeast')

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "palatal":
     accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
     apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated,
     assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central,
     cerebral, check, checked, close, consonant, consonantal,
     continuant, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal,
     epenthetic vowel, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal,
     glottalization, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial,
     labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax,
     light, lingual, liquid, low, manner of articulation, mid,
     modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute,
     muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone,
     palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization,
     pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch,
     pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, retroflex, rounded,
     segmental phoneme, semivowel, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound,
     stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus,
     syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic,
     transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded,
     unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced,
     voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel,
     vowellike, weak, wide