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Palato-alveolar consonant
In
phonetics
,
palato-alveolar
(or
palatoalveolar
)
consonants
are
postalveolar consonants
, nearly always
sibilants
, that are weakly
palatalized
with a domed (bunched-up) tongue. They are common sounds cross-linguistically and occur in
English
words such as
ship
and
chip
.
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