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Meaning of "velarization" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF VELARIZATION

ˌviːləraɪˈzeɪʃən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VELARIZATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Velarization is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VELARIZATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Velarization

Velarization is a secondary articulation of consonants by which the back of the tongue is raised toward the velum during the articulation of the consonant. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, velarization is transcribed by one of three diacritics: ▪ A tilde or swung dash through the letter U+0334 ̴ combining tilde overlay covers both velarization and pharyngealization, as in ▪ A superscript gamma U+02E0 ˠ modifier letter small gamma after the letter standing for the velarized consonant, as in ▪ A superscript <w> U+02B7 ʷ modifier letter small w indicates either simultaneous velarization and labialization, as in or, or labialization of a velar consonant, as in. Although electropalatographic studies have shown that there is a continuum of possible degrees of velarization, the IPA offers no way to indicate degrees of velarization, for this difference has not been found to be contrastive in any language. A common example of a velarized consonant is the velarized alveolar lateral approximant.

Definition of velarization in the English dictionary

The definition of velarization in the dictionary is the act, an instance, or the phenomenon of velarizing a sound.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VELARIZATION

authorization · characterization · civilization · customization · globalization · hospitalisation · hospitalization · hybridization · localization · novelization · optimisation · optimization · organisation · organization · realization · specialization · stabilization · synchronization · utilization · visualization

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VELARIZATION

velamen · velamina · velar · velaria · velaric · velarisation · velarise · velarium · velarize · velate · velatura · Velcro · Velcro fastener · Velcro fastening · Velcro strip · veld · Velde · veldschoen · veldskoen · veldt

WORDS THAT END LIKE VELARIZATION

accreditation · action · administration · animation · application · association · certification · citation · combination · communication · confirmation · conversation · corporation · creation · decoration · destination · documentation · duration · education · evaluation · excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of velarization in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «velarization» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF VELARIZATION

Find out the translation of velarization to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of velarization from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «velarization» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

腭化
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

velarización
570 millions of speakers
en

English

velarization
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

velarization
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

velarization
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

velarization
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

velarization
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

velarization
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

vélarisation
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Velarization
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Velarisierung
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

velarization
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

velarization
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Velarization
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

velarization
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

velarization
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

वल्लायझेशन
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

velarization
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

velarization
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

velarization
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

velarization
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

velarization
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπερωικοποίηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

velarization
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

velarization
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

velarization
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VELARIZATION»

Discover the use of velarization in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to velarization and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Comprehensive Articulatory Phonetics: A Tool for Mastering ...
[me] No Labial-Velarization Labial-velarization also involves two simultaneous secondary articulations. For this type of secondary articulation, the lips are rounded and the back of the tongue is raised at the velar point. In essence, this manner ...
T. L. Cleghorn, N. M. Rugg, 2011
2
Spanish Phonology: A Syllabic Perspective
An account similar to that of /s/-aspiration can be offered for the velarization of coda nasals in Caribbean dialects of Spanish. The data in example 4.2 are repeated in example 4.24 for convenience. The relevant constraints and ranking are in ...
Sonia Colina, 2009
3
The Dialects of Modern German: A Linguistic Survey
This is of two types: (a) velarization of dental plosives; (b) velarization of dental nasals. 7.2.3.1 Velarization of Dental Plosives (Gutturalisierung) Postvocalic /nt/ is velarized to /ng/ (final /nk/ ) in Ripuarian and parts of Moselle Franconian: ...
Charles Russ, 2013
4
Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding ...
Old English is (to some extent) spelled as if it had phonemic velarization, like Old Irish (which is not a coincidence), but there is little reason to think that it did. The answer, in my view, was provided long ago by Daunt (1939): the graphic short ...
Anne Curzan, Kimberly Emmons, 2004
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Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide ...
The names palatalization, velarization, and pharyngealization, make explicit where the narrowing is. In one sense a secondary articulation is the superimposition of a close-vowel-like articulation on a consonant - [i] for palatalization, ...
International Phonetic Association, 1999
6
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar
In cases of weakening of velarization, emphatic /r/ usually retains some degree of its trilled retroflex character, which distinguishes it from the tap /?"/, e.g. para [' paira] 'lamb'. This articulatory difference between the two rhotic segments is not, ...
Geoffrey Khan, 2008
7
Language Talent and Brain Activity
F2 frequency and the frequency distance between F2 and F1, Fv2, served as indicators for the degree of consonantal velarization. In order to determine significant formant-dependent differences, oneway ANOVAs were submitted separately for ...
Grzegorz Dogil, Susanne Maria Reiterer, 2009
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Evolutionary Phonology: The Emergence of Sound Patterns
Further evidence for a close relationship between velarization and pharyngealization is found in Arabic, where the pharyngealized series of consonants is sometimes produced with pharyngealization, and other times with uvularization, ...
Juliette Blevins, 2004
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A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai
Secondary velarization There is a clear lack of velarization in ASA, SWA, GrA and HnA forms rikbi/1, dr/cab (pl. r/cab in I_ImA and GbA) “knee(s)”. All dialects discussed in this chapter have a pl. demonstrative dill (-i/1) “these” (although ~ dum ...
Rudolf Erik De Jong, 2011
10
Language Universals and Variation
(15) Secondary articulations: predictions of the Labial/ Coronal/ Dorsal model A single language can show distinct labialization, coronalization (palatalization), and velarization (ignoring possible combinations of these). (16) Secondary ...
Mengistu Amberber, Peter Collins, 2002
REFERENCE
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