Palatalization in English

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Palatalization is a special case of assimilation. When alveolar consonants /t/, /d/, /s/, and /z/ precede the palatal semivowel /j/, they become the palatal sounds, /ʧ/, /ʤ/, /ʃ/, and /ʒ/ respectively. As in most cases of connected speech, palatalization mainly happens in fast speech.
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The lecture is based on my book "English Pronunciation, the American Way." The e-book can be found at the Amazon site, and the audio book can be found at Audible or at my website. pronunciationandprosody.blogs....

[@steven_duller3841]

I started to wonder if this type of speaking was more of a casualization of the language about halfway through and right in the end you said exactly that, neat. Excellent demonstration, thank you!

[@loqmanjabari5108]

Wow😍

[@MsTranthihai71]

Thanks

[@soheilaanali7199]

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[@nouf5235]

How would we palatalize: tune and dew?

[@NanheeByrnesPhD]

Excellent question! Standard American pronunciation does not palatalize alveolar sounds t, d, n, s, and z. This phenomenon is called Yod dropping. I have a video on this: th-cam.com/video/pbJ_HrNUDgQ/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUMeW9kIGRyb3BwaW5n

[@waynehamilton6781]

@@NanheeByrnesPhDThis is confusing. The topic of this very video is palatalization of t, d, s, and z in Standard American English. Clearly it can at least under certain circumstances be palatalized. When does yod-dropping occur then and when does it not?

[@NanheeByrnesPhD]

@@waynehamilton6781 palatalization is a feature of connected speech

[@bramblebop1904]

How about "groceries" becoming "grosheries"? There's no j there?

[@NanheeByrnesPhD]

Excellent observation! In fast speech, "grocery" becomes a two-syllable word, with the middle vowel being elided (called elision). In this situation, the palatal "r" morphs "s" to "sh."

[@bramblebop1904]

Swedes pronounce "rs" as a "sh" ( thorsdag = toshda, "Gunnarson" = gunnashon, etc.). Is it the same phenomenon? Is it independent of the language even?
Btw., what area of scholarship this belongs to? I find this very interesting.... is it linguistics, phonetics, something else?

[@bramblebop1904]

A lot of people say "assoshiate" instead of "associate" - but not everyone. Is it palatilisation as well? No j or r there...

[@Yoreni]

i only have /t/ and /d/ + /j/ turning into /ʧ/ and /ʤ/. i dont have /s/ and /z/ + /j/ turning into /ʃ/ and /ʒ/

[@waynehamilton6781]

Interesting, do you not say 'mission' and 'vision' as if they were 'mishen' and 'vizhen' then?