Phonology: case studies
By Scott Myers and Megan Crowhurst
Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas
Turkish palatalization
Turkish has at least two different sound alternations that have been described as forms of palatalization:
- An alternation among the Dorsal stops, in which the velars [k g] alternate with the palatals [c ɟ].
- A lateral alternation, in which the velarized alveolar liquid [l] alternates with a non-velarized liquid transcribed in many sources as [lɟ].
Each of these sound phenomena is discusssed in turn below. Since the discussion in this module is quite long, we have created a number of links that you should visit in sequence. However, you may visit the spectrograms at any point.