The slender consonants like the b in beo are palatalized, meaning that the tongue body moves up and forward toward the hard palate, as if making a “y” [j] sound, while the primary articulatory …

1 Introduction. Irish is well known for its use of contrastive secondary palatalization and velarization. There are many pairs like bán / b ˠ a ː n ˠ/ ‘white’ vs. beann / b ʲ a ː n ˠ/ ‘peak’ …

weaker or absent. Third, the Irish consonants examined resist coarticulation in backness with a following vowel. In all of these respects Irish palatalization is remarkably similar to that of …

Nov 1, 2024 · Ultrasound data from Connacht Irish (Bennett et al., 2018) shows that, at least in this dialect group, palatalized /C j / is consistently associated with tongue body raising and …

2. The Surface Realization Of Palatalized Vs. Nonpalatalized Consonants Palatalized consonants are pronounced in the way one might expect, except that palatalized s is [∫] and palatalized …

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This paper is an acoustic study of palatalized or "slender" consonants in spoken Irish, comparing the quality and degree of palatalization using spectrograms. ... pˠ(bˠ) tʲ tˠ kʲ kˠ fʲ fˠ sʲ sˠ xʲ xˠ/ are …

Third, the Irish consonants examined resist coarticulation in backness with a following vowel. In all of these respects Irish palatalization is remarkably similar to that of Russian. Our results also …

The slender consonants like the b in beo are palatalized, meaning that the tongue body moves up and forward toward the hard palate, as if making a “y” [j] sound, while the primary articulatory …

Nov 30, 2020 · Attenuation, also known as slenderization, refers to the palatal characteristic of a consonant's secondary articulation.Slender sounds are said to be palatalized where the the …