Morris Halle, Palatalization/Velar Softening: What It Is and What It Tells Us about the Nature of Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Winter, 2005), pp. 23-41 ...

Fifty cases of sound-symbolic expressive palatalization were collected in a typological survey of babytalk registers, diminutive constructions, and other sound-symbolic systems. Analysis of the ...

The paper attempts to compare the status of palatalization of consonants in Modern Irish and Polish within the phonological and morphological systems of the two languages. Irish and Polish have been ...