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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=phonetics">phonetics</a>, <b>palatalization</b> (, ) or <b>palatization</b> is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the <a href="page.php?w=hard_palate">hard palate</a>. Consonants pronounced this way are said to be <b>palatalized</b> and are transcribed in the <a href="page.php?w=International_Phonetic_Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> by affixing a superscript j, , to the base letter. Palatalization is not <a href="page.php?w=Phonemic_contrast">phonemic</a> in English,</p><p>
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