Difference between revisions of "Palatal (definition)"

From Scottish Gaelic Grammar Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Line 26: Line 26:
 
[[Category: Technical Definitions]]
 
[[Category: Technical Definitions]]
 
[[Category: Phonetics]]
 
[[Category: Phonetics]]
[[Category: Places of articulation]]
 
 
[[Category: Places of Articulation]]
 
[[Category: Places of Articulation]]

Revision as of 11:43, 15 June 2012

A palatal sound is produced with the tongue touching or nearly touching the hard palate.

  • palatal sounds of English are [ʧ,ʤ,ʃ,ʒ,j].
  • palatal sounds of Gaelic are [tʲʰ,tʲ,kʲʰ,kʲ,ɲ,ʃ,ç,ʝ,lʲ,ɾʲ,j].

See Also

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

References

  • Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
  • Ladefoged, Peter (1993) A Course in Phonetics Third Edition. London: Harcourt Press.
  • Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.