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Palatalization (phonetics)

June 06, 2023

This article is about the phonetic feature. For the sound change, see Palatalization (sound change).

In phonetics, palatalization (/ˌpælətəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/, also US: /-lɪˈzeɪʃən/) or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate. Consonants pronounced this way are said to be palatalized and are transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet by affixing the letter ⟨ʲ⟩ to the base consonant. Palatalization cannot minimally distinguish words in most dialects of English, but it may do so in languages such as Russian, Mandarin, Võro, and Irish.

Palatalized
◌ʲ
IPA Number421
Encoding
Entity (decimal)ʲ
Unicode (hex)U+02B2

Types

In technical terms, palatalization refers to the secondary articulation of consonants by which the body of the tongue is raised toward the hard palate and the alveolar ridge during the articulation of the consonant. Such consonants are phonetically palatalized. "Pure" palatalization is a modification to the articulation of a consonant, where the middle of the tongue is raised, and nothing else. It may produce a laminal articulation of otherwise apical consonants such as /t/ and /s/.

Phonetically palatalized consonants may vary in their exact realization. Some languages add semivowels before or after the palatalized consonant (onglides or offglides). In such cases, the vowel (especially a non-front vowel) following a palatalized consonant typically has a palatal onglide. In Russian, both plain and palatalized consonant phonemes are found in words like большой [bɐlʲˈʂoj] ( listen), царь [tsarʲ] ( listen) and Катя [ˈkatʲə] ( listen). In Hupa, on the other hand, the palatalization is heard as both an onglide and an offglide. In some cases, the realization of palatalization may change without any corresponding phonemic change. For example, according to Thurneysen,[full citation needed] palatalized consonants at the end of a syllable in Old Irish had a corresponding onglide (reflected as ⟨i⟩ in the spelling), which was no longer present in Middle Irish (based on explicit testimony of grammarians of the time).

In a few languages, including Skolt Sami and many of the Central Chadic languages, palatalization is a suprasegmental feature that affects the pronunciation of an entire syllable, and it may cause certain vowels to be pronounced more front and consonants to be slightly palatalized. In Skolt Sami and its relatives (Kildin Sami and Ter Sami), suprasegmental palatalization contrasts with segmental palatal articulation (palatal consonants).

Transcription

In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), palatalized consonants are marked by the modifier letter ⟨ʲ⟩, a superscript version of the symbol for the palatal approximant ⟨j⟩. For instance, ⟨tʲ⟩ represents the palatalized form of the voiceless alveolar stop [t]. Prior to 1989, a subscript diacritic (⟨ᶀ ꞔ ᶁ ᶂ ᶃ ꞕ ᶄ ᶅ ᶆ ᶇ ᶈ ᶉ ᶊ ƫ ᶌ ᶍ ᶎ⟩) and several palatalized consonants were represented by curly-tailed variants in the IPA, e.g., ⟨ʆ⟩ for [ʃʲ] and ⟨ʓ⟩ for [ʒʲ]: see palatal hook. The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet marks palatalized consonants by an acute accent, as do some Finnic languages using the Latin alphabet, as in Võro ⟨ś⟩. Others use an apostrophe, as in Karelian ⟨s’⟩; or digraphs in j, as in the Savonian dialects of Finnish, ⟨sj⟩.

Phonology

Palatalization has varying phonological significance in different languages. It is allophonic in English, but phonemic in others. In English, consonants are palatalized when they occur before front vowels or the palatal approximant (and in a few other cases), but no words are distinguished by palatalization (complementary distribution), whereas in some of the other languages, the difference between palatalized consonants and plain un-palatalized consonants distinguishes between words, appearing in a contrastive distribution (where one of the two versions, palatalized or not, appears in the same environment as the other).

Allophonic palatalization

In some languages, like English, palatalization is allophonic. Some phonemes have palatalized allophones in certain contexts, typically before front vowels and unpalatalized allophones elsewhere. Because it is allophonic, palatalization of this type does not distinguish words and often goes unnoticed by native speakers. Phonetic palatalization occurs in American English. Stops are palatalized before the front vowel /i/ and not palatalized in other cases.

Phonemic palatalization

In some languages, palatalization is a distinctive feature that distinguishes two consonant phonemes. This feature occurs in Russian, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic, among others.

Phonemic palatalization may be contrasted with either plain or velarized articulation. In many of the Slavic languages, and some of the Baltic and Finnic languages, palatalized consonants contrast with plain consonants, but in Irish they contrast with velarized consonants.

  • Russian нос  /nos/ "nose" (unpalatalized /n/)
нёс  /nʲos/ "(he) carried" (palatalized /nʲ/)
  • Irish bó  /bˠoː/ "cow" (velarized b)
beo  /bʲoː/ "alive" (palatalized b)

Some palatalized phonemes undergo change beyond phonetic palatalization. For instance, the unpalatalized sibilant (Irish /sˠ/, Scottish /s̪/) has a palatalized counterpart that is actually postalveolar [ʃ], not phonetically palatalized [sʲ], and the velar fricative /x/ in both languages has a palatalized counterpart that is actually palatal [ç] rather than palatalized velar [xʲ]. These shifts in primary place of articulation are examples of the sound change of palatalization.

Morphophonemic

 
Romanian ban, bani ("coin, coins")
[ban banʲ]
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In some languages, palatalization is used as a morpheme or part of a morpheme. In some cases, a vowel caused a consonant to become palatalized, and then this vowel was lost by elision. Here, there appears to be a phonemic contrast when analysis of the deep structure shows it to be allophonic.

In Romanian, consonants are palatalized before /i/. Palatalized consonants appear at the end of the word, and mark the plural in nouns and adjectives, and the second person singular in verbs.[1] On the surface, it would appear then that ban [ban] "coin" forms a minimal pair with bani [banʲ]. The interpretation commonly taken, however, is that an underlying morpheme |-i| palatalizes the consonant and is subsequently deleted.

Palatalization may also occur as a morphological feature. For example, although Russian makes phonemic contrasts between palatalized and unpalatalized consonants, alternations across morpheme boundaries are normal:[2]

Sound changes

Main article: Palatalization (sound change)

In some languages, allophonic palatalization developed into phonemic palatalization by phonemic split. In other languages, phonemes that were originally phonetically palatalized changed further: palatal secondary place of articulation developed into changes in manner of articulation or primary place of articulation.

Phonetic palatalization of a consonant sometimes causes surrounding vowels to change by coarticulation or assimilation. In Russian, "soft" (palatalized) consonants are usually followed by vowels that are relatively more front (that is, closer to [i] or [y]), and vowels following "hard" (unpalatalized) consonants are further back. See Russian phonology § Allophony for more information.

Examples

Slavic languages

In many Slavic languages, palatal or palatalized consonants are called soft, and others are called hard. Some of them, like Russian, have numerous pairs of palatalized and unpalatalized consonant phonemes.

Russian Cyrillic has pairs of vowel letters that mark whether the consonant preceding them is hard/soft: ⟨а⟩/⟨я⟩, ⟨э⟩/⟨е⟩, ⟨ы⟩/⟨и⟩, ⟨о⟩/⟨ё⟩, and ⟨у⟩/⟨ю⟩. The otherwise silent soft sign ⟨ь⟩ also indicates that the previous consonant is soft.

Goidelic

Main articles: Irish phonology § Consonants, and Scottish Gaelic phonology § Consonants

Irish and Scottish Gaelic have pairs of palatalized (slender) and unpalatalized (broad) consonant phonemes. In Irish, most broad consonants are velarized. In Scottish Gaelic, the only velarized consonants are [n̪ˠ] and [l̪ˠ]; [r] is sometimes described as velarized as well.[3][4]

Mandarin Chinese

Palatalized consonants occur in standard Mandarin Chinese in the form of the alveolo-palatal consonants, which are written in pinyin as j, q, and x.

Marshallese

In the Marshallese language, each consonant has some type of secondary articulation (palatalization, velarization, or labiovelarization). The palatalized consonants are regarded as "light", and the velarized and rounded consonants are regarded as "heavy", with the rounded consonants being both velarized and labialized.

Norwegian

Many Norwegian dialects have phonemic palatalized consonants. In many parts of Northern Norway and many areas of Møre og Romsdal, for example, the words /hɑnː/ ('hand') and /hɑnʲː/ ('he') are differentiated only by the palatalization of the final consonant. Palatalization is generally realised only on stressed syllables, but speakers of the Sør-Trøndelag dialects will generally palatalize the coda of a determined plural as well: e.g. /hunʲː.ɑnʲ/ or, in other areas, /hʉnʲː.ɑn/ ('the dogs'), rather than */hunʲː.ɑn/. Norwegian dialects utilizing palatalization will generally palatalize /d/, /l/, /n/ and /t/.

See also

References

  1. ^ Chițoran (2001:11)
  2. ^ See Lightner (1972:9–11, 12–13) for a fuller list of examples.
  3. ^ Bauer, Michael. Blas na Gàidhlig: The Practical Guide to Gaelic Pronunciation. Glasgow: Akerbeltz, 2011.
  4. ^ Nance, C., McLeod, W., O'Rourke, B. and Dunmore, S. (2016), Identity, accent aim, and motivation in second language users: New Scottish Gaelic speakers’ use of phonetic variation. J Sociolinguistics, 20: 164–191. doi:10.1111/josl.12173

Bibliography

  • Bynon, Theodora. Historical Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, 1977. ISBN 0-521-21582-X (hardback) or ISBN 978-0-521-29188-0 (paperback).
  • Bhat, D.N.S. (1978), "A General Study of Palatalization", Universals of Human Language, 2: 47–92
  • Buckley, E. (2003), "The Phonetic Origin and Phonological Extension of Gallo-Roman Palatalization", Proceedings of the North American Phonology Conferences 1 and 2, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.81.4003
  • Chițoran, Ioana (2001), The Phonology of Romanian: A Constraint-based Approach, Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN 3-11-016766-2
  • Crowley, Terry. (1997) An Introduction to Historical Linguistics. 3rd edition. Oxford University Press.
  • Lightner, Theodore M. (1972), Problems in the Theory of Phonology, I: Russian phonology and Turkish phonology, Edmonton: Linguistic Research, inc
  • Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Ladusaw, William A. (1996). Phonetic Symbol Guide. University of Chicago Press.

External links

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  • Frisian assibilation as a hypercorrect effect due to a substrate language

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Contents 1 Types 2 Transcription 3 Phonology 3 1 Allophonic palatalization 3 2 Phonemic palatalization 3 3 Morphophonemic 4 Sound changes 5 Examples 5 1 Slavic languages 5 2 Goidelic 5 3 Mandarin Chinese 5 4 Marshallese 5 5 Norwegian 6 See also 7 References 8 Bibliography 9 External linksTypes EditIn technical terms palatalization refers to the secondary articulation of consonants by which the body of the tongue is raised toward the hard palate and the alveolar ridge during the articulation of the consonant Such consonants are phonetically palatalized Pure palatalization is a modification to the articulation of a consonant where the middle of the tongue is raised and nothing else It may produce a laminal articulation of otherwise apical consonants such as t and s Phonetically palatalized consonants may vary in their exact realization Some languages add semivowels before or after the palatalized consonant onglides or offglides In such cases the vowel especially a non front vowel following a palatalized consonant typically has a palatal onglide In Russian both plain and palatalized consonant phonemes are found in words like bolshoj bɐlʲˈʂoj listen car tsarʲ listen and Katya ˈkatʲe listen In Hupa on the other hand the palatalization is heard as both an onglide and an offglide In some cases the realization of palatalization may change without any corresponding phonemic change For example according to Thurneysen full citation needed palatalized consonants at the end of a syllable in Old Irish had a corresponding onglide reflected as i in the spelling which was no longer present in Middle Irish based on explicit testimony of grammarians of the time In a few languages including Skolt Sami and many of the Central Chadic languages palatalization is a suprasegmental feature that affects the pronunciation of an entire syllable and it may cause certain vowels to be pronounced more front and consonants to be slightly palatalized In Skolt Sami and its relatives Kildin Sami and Ter Sami suprasegmental palatalization contrasts with segmental palatal articulation palatal consonants Transcription EditIn the International Phonetic Alphabet IPA palatalized consonants are marked by the modifier letter ʲ a superscript version of the symbol for the palatal approximant j For instance tʲ represents the palatalized form of the voiceless alveolar stop t Prior to 1989 a subscript diacritic ᶀ ꞔ ᶁ ᶂ ᶃ ꞕ ᶄ ᶅ ᶆ ᶇ ᶈ ᶉ ᶊ ƫ ᶌ ᶍ ᶎ and several palatalized consonants were represented by curly tailed variants in the IPA e g ʆ for ʃʲ and ʓ for ʒʲ see palatal hook The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet marks palatalized consonants by an acute accent as do some Finnic languages using the Latin alphabet as in Voro s Others use an apostrophe as in Karelian s or digraphs in j as in the Savonian dialects of Finnish sj Phonology EditPalatalization has varying phonological significance in different languages It is allophonic in English but phonemic in others In English consonants are palatalized when they occur before front vowels or the palatal approximant and in a few other cases but no words are distinguished by palatalization complementary distribution whereas in some of the other languages the difference between palatalized consonants and plain un palatalized consonants distinguishes between words appearing in a contrastive distribution where one of the two versions palatalized or not appears in the same environment as the other Allophonic palatalization Edit In some languages like English palatalization is allophonic Some phonemes have palatalized allophones in certain contexts typically before front vowels and unpalatalized allophones elsewhere Because it is allophonic palatalization of this type does not distinguish words and often goes unnoticed by native speakers Phonetic palatalization occurs in American English Stops are palatalized before the front vowel i and not palatalized in other cases Phonemic palatalization Edit In some languages palatalization is a distinctive feature that distinguishes two consonant phonemes This feature occurs in Russian Irish and Scottish Gaelic among others Phonemic palatalization may be contrasted with either plain or velarized articulation In many of the Slavic languages and some of the Baltic and Finnic languages palatalized consonants contrast with plain consonants but in Irish they contrast with velarized consonants Russian nos nos nose unpalatalized n nyos nʲos he carried palatalized nʲ Irish bo bˠoː cow velarized b beo bʲoː alive palatalized b Some palatalized phonemes undergo change beyond phonetic palatalization For instance the unpalatalized sibilant Irish sˠ Scottish s has a palatalized counterpart that is actually postalveolar ʃ not phonetically palatalized sʲ and the velar fricative x in both languages has a palatalized counterpart that is actually palatal c rather than palatalized velar xʲ These shifts in primary place of articulation are examples of the sound change of palatalization Morphophonemic Edit Romanian ban bani coin coins source source ban banʲ Problems playing this file See media help In some languages palatalization is used as a morpheme or part of a morpheme In some cases a vowel caused a consonant to become palatalized and then this vowel was lost by elision Here there appears to be a phonemic contrast when analysis of the deep structure shows it to be allophonic In Romanian consonants are palatalized before i Palatalized consonants appear at the end of the word and mark the plural in nouns and adjectives and the second person singular in verbs 1 On the surface it would appear then that ban ban coin forms a minimal pair with bani banʲ The interpretation commonly taken however is that an underlying morpheme i palatalizes the consonant and is subsequently deleted Palatalization may also occur as a morphological feature For example although Russian makes phonemic contrasts between palatalized and unpalatalized consonants alternations across morpheme boundaries are normal 2 otvet ɐˈtvʲet answer vs otvetit ɐˈtvʲetʲɪtʲ to answer nesu nʲɪˈsu I carry vs nesyot nʲɪˈsʲɵt carries golod ˈɡolet hunger vs goloden ˈɡoledʲɪn hungry masc Sound changes EditMain article Palatalization sound change In some languages allophonic palatalization developed into phonemic palatalization by phonemic split In other languages phonemes that were originally phonetically palatalized changed further palatal secondary place of articulation developed into changes in manner of articulation or primary place of articulation Phonetic palatalization of a consonant sometimes causes surrounding vowels to change by coarticulation or assimilation In Russian soft palatalized consonants are usually followed by vowels that are relatively more front that is closer to i or y and vowels following hard unpalatalized consonants are further back See Russian phonology Allophony for more information Examples EditSlavic languages Edit In many Slavic languages palatal or palatalized consonants are called soft and others are called hard Some of them like Russian have numerous pairs of palatalized and unpalatalized consonant phonemes Russian Cyrillic has pairs of vowel letters that mark whether the consonant preceding them is hard soft a ya e e y i o yo and u yu The otherwise silent soft sign also indicates that the previous consonant is soft Goidelic Edit Main articles Irish phonology Consonants and Scottish Gaelic phonology Consonants Irish and Scottish Gaelic have pairs of palatalized slender and unpalatalized broad consonant phonemes In Irish most broad consonants are velarized In Scottish Gaelic the only velarized consonants are n ˠ and l ˠ r is sometimes described as velarized as well 3 4 Mandarin Chinese Edit Palatalized consonants occur in standard Mandarin Chinese in the form of the alveolo palatal consonants which are written in pinyin as j q and x Marshallese Edit In the Marshallese language each consonant has some type of secondary articulation palatalization velarization or labiovelarization The palatalized consonants are regarded as light and the velarized and rounded consonants are regarded as heavy with the rounded consonants being both velarized and labialized Norwegian Edit Many Norwegian dialects have phonemic palatalized consonants In many parts of Northern Norway and many areas of More og Romsdal for example the words hɑnː hand and hɑnʲː he are differentiated only by the palatalization of the final consonant Palatalization is generally realised only on stressed syllables but speakers of the Sor Trondelag dialects will generally palatalize the coda of a determined plural as well e g hunʲː ɑnʲ or in other areas hʉnʲː ɑn the dogs rather than hunʲː ɑn Norwegian dialects utilizing palatalization will generally palatalize d l n and t See also EditIotation a related process in Slavic languages Soft sign a Cyrillic grapheme indicating palatalization Manner of articulation List of phonetics topics Labio palatalization YōonReferences Edit Chițoran 2001 11 See Lightner 1972 9 11 12 13 for a fuller list of examples Bauer Michael Blas na Gaidhlig The Practical Guide to Gaelic Pronunciation Glasgow Akerbeltz 2011 Nance C McLeod W O Rourke B and Dunmore S 2016 Identity accent aim and motivation in second language users New Scottish Gaelic speakers use of phonetic variation J Sociolinguistics 20 164 191 doi 10 1111 josl 12173Bibliography EditBynon Theodora Historical Linguistics Cambridge University Press 1977 ISBN 0 521 21582 X hardback or ISBN 978 0 521 29188 0 paperback Bhat D N S 1978 A General Study of Palatalization Universals of Human Language 2 47 92 Buckley E 2003 The Phonetic Origin and Phonological Extension of Gallo Roman Palatalization Proceedings of the North American Phonology Conferences 1 and 2 CiteSeerX 10 1 1 81 4003 Chițoran Ioana 2001 The Phonology of Romanian A Constraint based Approach Berlin amp New York Mouton de Gruyter ISBN 3 11 016766 2 Crowley Terry 1997 An Introduction to Historical Linguistics 3rd edition Oxford University Press Lightner Theodore M 1972 Problems in the Theory of Phonology I Russian phonology and Turkish phonology Edmonton Linguistic Research inc Pullum Geoffrey K Ladusaw William A 1996 Phonetic Symbol Guide University of Chicago Press External links EditErkki Savolainen Internetix 1998 Suomen murteet Koprinan murretta with a sound sample with palatalized t Frisian assibilation as a hypercorrect effect due to a substrate language Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Palatalization phonetics amp oldid 1157650402, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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