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A coarticulation involving the segmental assimilation of palatal approximants

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Why are palatalized consonants commonly accompanied by stretched lips?

If the consonant in question is neither labial nor labialized, the lip position accompanying its pronunciation is characterized only by that of the neighboring vowel, it doesn't depend on whether the …
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What phonological process changes е to ё in Russian?

When this new [o] after the palatalized consonants appeared, there were no orthographic means to write it and to indicate the palatalization of the previous consonant, it was usually spelled as IO, sometimes …
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Why is there a Second Palatalization in personal nouns but not in non-personal nouns in Nomi...

In other Slavic languages the results of the Second Palatalization are more consistent: Bulgarian вълк (vǎlk) “wolf” – вълци (vǎltsi) “wolves”. … existence of Polish forms like ptaki can be explained by forming the Nominative plural by analogy with the Accusative plural that originally had the case suffix -y [ɨ], which didn't trigger the Second Palatalization
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What is the function of the soft sign (Ь) in Russian?

Palatalization (P) can easily be explained, but is very hard to produce with the tongue (for those who have no such thing as P in their native language). …
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