User:Erutuon/Palatalization

In linguistics, palatalization is a sound change in which a consonant becomes pronounced closer to the palatal place of articulation. This change is often triggered by the palatal approximant (English consonantal y) or a front vowel. In phonetics, a palatalized consonant is one pronounced with a palatal secondary articulation, indicated in IPA by a superscript j: [tʲ]. A vowel that has become fronter or closer may be called a palatalized vowel, but this does not refer to a secondary articulation as it does with consonants.