(1) Elsewhere, when followed by unstressed i and another vowel, t is commonly palatalized to produce the voiceless palato-alveolar fricative sh sound.(2) For example, in Jamaican Creole the palatalization of /k/ and /g/ as in /kyar/ u2018caru2019 and /gwain/ u2018goingu2019 were customary in some of the varieties of British English transported to Jamaica in the eighteenth century.(3) Investigation of the social distribution of palatalization shows that women's speeches reflect frequent and advanced palatalization , while men's do not.(4) Palatalization inhibited across phrase boundaries, and palatalization at word boundaries provides syntactic boundary cues to speakers of American English.(5) It has the soft, palatalized value /s/ before e, i, y: cell, city, cite, cycle, fancy.(6) Palatalized and plain consonants do not contrast in words with non-pharyngeal vowels.(7) The phenomenon of palatalization is the single most important phonetic phenomenon of the Modern Greek language.(8) Linguistically, palatalization is a phonological process in which a sound takes on a palatal place of articulation usually in assimilation to a neighboring palatal sound such as /i/ and /y/.(9) These transformations have led, in fact, to some of the most distinguishing characteristics of the different branches of the IE family (e.g. the u2018softu2019 palatalized consonants in the Slavic languages).(10) The view that it is these clusters that palatalized first is supported by Rumanian data.(11) Such consonants are phonetically palatalized , and in the International Phonetic Alphabet they are indicated by a superscript 'j'.(12) In reality k palatalized first into k@.
