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  oxymoron
  oxyton1
  oxyton2
  oxytonique
  paire
  palais
  palatal
  palatale
  palatalisation
  palatalisé
  palataliser
  palato(-)alvéolaire1
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  palatogramme

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velum

Fr    palais mou, velum, voile du palais

nS

Synonym(s): soft palate

Domain: Phonology

Source(s):

Akmajian etal. 1984: 109
AKMAJIAN, Adrian, DEMERS, Richard A., & HARNISH, Robert M. (1984) Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.


Clark & Clark 1977: 181
CLARK, Herbert H. & Eve V. (1977) Psychology and Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich. (PL)


Collinge 1990: 5
COLLINGE, N. E. (1990) An Encyclopaedia of Language. London: Routledge.


Crystal 2003: 334, 489
CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.


Dell 1980[trans.]: 38, 40
DELL, François. (1980 [trans.]) Generative Phonology. Trans. By Catherine Cullen.  Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.  (GG/PH)


Dineen 1967: 24
DINEEN, Francis P. (1967) An Introduction to General Linguistics. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.


ELL: 5185
The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.


Hartmann & Stork 1972: 248
HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.


Lehmann 1992: 193 (position of the velum)
LEHMANN, Winfred P. (1992) Historical Linguistics, 3rd Edition. London: Routledge. (HL)


MacKay 1989: 203
MACKAY, Ian. (1989) Phonetics and Speech Science. A Bilingual Dictionary. Dictionnaire Bilingue de la Phonétique et des Sciences de la Parole. New York/Bern: Peter Lang. (PH)


Martinet 1964[trans.]: 50
MARTINET, André. (1964 [trans.]) Elements of General Linguistics. Chicago: University of Chicago.  (FM)


Matthews 1997: 395
MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


Nash 1968: 261
NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 


Richards etal. 1992: 280, 397
RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT,  J. & WEBER,  H.  (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.


Trask 1996: 374-375
TRASK, R. L. (1996) A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology. London: Routledge.  (PH)


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  velarization
  velarized
  velarized sound
  velic
  velic closure
velum
  verb1
  verb2
  verb morphology
  verb of motion
  verb of object control
  verb of propositional attitude
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