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• v  pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate
• s  produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')

• You say, for example, that the novel was originally titled Mashenka, with the accent on the first a (pronounced as in ask) and a palatalized n as in mignon.

• palatalize
• palatalise
• palatal
• palatalised