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[tʲ]→[c]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Palatalization Place Assimilation Slavic Tungusic East Slavic

Palatalized voiceless alveolar plosive to Voiceless palatal plosive

The phonetic transformation from a palatalized voiceless alveolar plosive (tʲ) to a voiceless palatal plosive (c) represents a complete assimilation of the palatalization feature into the primary place of articulation. This shift involves the tongue body, already raised towards the hard palate for the secondary articulation, taking over the primary closure, resulting in a true palatal stop.

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Place Assimilation, Fortition

Language Examples

Carpathian Ukrainian dialects East Slavic

/tʲ/→[c]— Palatalized /t/ becomes a palatal stop, often triggered by a following /i/.

Evenki Tungusic

tʲ→c— Attested phonetic correspondence in the language.

Related Transformations

Reverse Voiced counterpart

More Slavic Shifts

[a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [b] → [bʲ] — Palatalization [ʌ] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [dʲ] → [dʒ] — Affrication [d] → [dʲ] — Palatalization

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