Palatalization
The palatalization is a phonetic Modification in which a sound is produced by a part more in front of the hard palate that used for the sound of origin.
For example, the Latin castellum gave to chastel in Former French, and caballus was transformed into horse : the phenomenon which makes pass Latin (dorso-velar Phonème, articulated back of the language against the velum) to French (post-alveolar phoneme, pronounced against part of the hard palate) is a palatalization.
Palatalization played a big role in the evolution of the Romance Langues, Slavic, and Indo-Aryan but also in Japanese (it explains why the consonants /t/ and /s/ are carried out ʨ and ɕ in front of a /i/, for example) and in Mandarin (where /hi/ was palatalized in, inter alia examples).
One also speaks, wrongly, of palatalization to describe the projection of the Joint of a back Vowel towards a former position more . Evolution of the U long Latin pronounced into French U marked there in is an example.
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