Crossword clues for palatal
palatal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palatal \Pal"a*tal\, a. [Cf. F. palatal.]
Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal bones.
(Phonetics) Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk.
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.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context anatomy English) Pertaining to the palate. 2 (context dentistry not comparable English) Of an upper tooth, on the side facing the palate. 3 (context phonetics English) articulated at the hard palate. n. (context phonetics English) A palatal consonant.
WordNet
adj. relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the palatine tonsils" [syn: palatine]
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')
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "palatal".
Correlated with this peculiarity the maxilla usually has the tomia sinuated, and is generally concave, and smaller and narrower than the mandible, which is also concave to receive the palatal knob.
In Quenya, which possessed besides the _calmatéma_ both a palatal series (_tyelpetéma_) and labialized series (_quessetéma_), the palatals were represented by a Fëanorian diacritic denoting 'following _y_' (usually two underposed dots), while Series IV was a _kw_-series.
In Quenya, which possessed besides the calmatéma both a palatal series (tyelpetéma) and labialized series (quessetéma), the palatals were represented by a Fëanorian diacritic denoting 'following y' (usually two underposed dots), while Series IV was a kw-series.
I was relying on his impression of events to cover my accent: there's no precise equivalent for the palatals hi English and you've got to do it with the tip of the tongue on the lower teeth and the middle pressed towards the alveolar ridge and it takes practice and I hadn't had much.
The word took forever to slide back and forth from postdental through labial stop and back to palatal fricative, beside the sounds that danced through her brain now.
We even spoke differently when we had eaten of those meat cubes: our speech became palatal metamorphosed four-legged: we barked at each other.
Mountclemens says cats like to hear a repetition of syllables when they're being ad, dressed, and their ears are particularly receptive to palatal and velar sounds.