Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Change, conditioned through assimilation, in the place of articulation of consonants and vowels towards the hard palate (
secondary articulation). In consonants it usually involves dentals or velars with a neighboring front vowel (mostly i, y), cf. e.g.
the palatalization of Lat. [k] in centum [kentum]>Ital. cento [t∫ento]. In vowels, palatalization generally involves a fronting of back vowels ( vowel harmony).
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