Iotation is a linguistic phenomenon very characteristic of the Slavic languages.

Beckett's appearance is rough-hewn Irish.

For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.

It is filled with the usual personal abuse of Steele, especially of his physical appearance ; ;

Its original appearance is shown in an engraving published in the `` Massachusetts Magazine '' in May 1793, which is reproduced herewith ( Fig. 1 ).

badness, in the only sense in which it is involved at all, waited for its appearance till I came and looked and felt.

Psychical blindness is a condition in which there is a total absence of visual memory-images, a condition in which, for example, one is unable to remember something just seen or to conjure up a memory-picture of the visible appearance of a well-known friend in his absence.

Partly because low-level heat treatment is needed to inactivate enzymes before radiosterilization, treated fresh meats have the appearance of boiled or canned meat.

The typical appearance of these various mechanisms is illustrated in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, which are single frame enlargements of high speed movies taken during the course of the knife removal process.

Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

* The Afroasiatic identity of Ongota is also broadly questioned, as is its position within Afroasiatic among those who accept it, due to the " mixed " appearance of the language and a paucity of research and data.

The frog Allobates zaparo is not poisonous but mimics the appearance of other toxic species in its locality, a strategy that may deceive predators.

In a criminal case, there is usually an arraignment or some other kind of appearance before the defendant comes to court.

The aardvark is vaguely pig-like in appearance.

In some fictional works, the difference between a robot and android is only their appearance, with androids being made to look like humans on the outside but with robot-like internal mechanics.

Thelymitra is an example of a genus where the lower petal is similar in appearance to the other petals.

A central massif composed of uplifted blocks and downfolded troughs, covered by recent deposits and giving the appearance of a plateau with rough terrain, is wedged between two folded mountain ranges that converge in the east.

Americium is a relatively soft radioactive metal with silvery appearance.

Astatine is sometimes described as being a black solid ( assuming that it follows this trend ), or as having a metallic appearance ( if it is a metalloid or a metal ).

Vowels may be nasalized before n ( which is assimilated to m before p or b ) and the palatal nasal consonant represented by < gn >.

In most languages, the retroflex and palatal releases are " abrupt "; that is, they are sharp popping sounds with little frication ( turbulent airflow ).

In Italian and French, ⟨ gn ⟩ is used to represent the palatal nasal, a sound somewhat similar to the ⟨ ny ⟩ in English canyon.

It is realized either as a palatal ( before a front vowel, / e, i /), or as a velar ( in all other environments ).

They often become automatically fronted, that is partly or completely palatal before a following front vowel, and retracted before back vowels.

Phonologically it is distinguished from Sinhalese by the higher frequency of palatal sounds C and J.

In addition, ⟨ ny ⟩ represents the palatal nasal, ⟨ ng ⟩ is used for the velar nasal ( which can occur word-initially ), ⟨ sy ⟩ for ( English ⟨ sh ⟩) and ⟨ kh ⟩ for the voiceless velar fricative.

In the Moksha language there is even a voiceless palatal approximant ( written in Cyrillic as < йх > jh ) along with and ( written as < лх > lh and < рх > rh ).

Please note that Müller ( 1994 ) uses the American Phonetic transcription of the palatal glide, / y /, in her article, but the International Phonetic Alphabet is used for the above chart, transcribing the phoneme as / j /.

A long row of palatal teeth is present and most species have a functional left lung that can be up to 75 % as large as the right lung.

In Modern Greek, it has two distinct pronunciations: In front of high or front vowels ( or ) it is pronounced as a voiceless palatal fricative, as in German ich or like the h in some pronunciations of the English words hew and human.

Formation of the palate is the last step in joining the five embryonic facial lobes, and involves the back portions of the lobes b and c. These back portions are called palatal shelves, which grow towards each other until they fuse in the middle.

The maxilla (; plural: maxillae ) is a fusion of two bones along the palatal fissure that form the upper jaw.

In Spanish in particular it was kept to indicate the palatal nasal, the sound that is now spelt as " ñ ".

The palatal nasal sound is roughly reminiscent of the English consonant cluster in " onion ".

Instead, / z / is substituted with the voiced palatal affricate ( or postalveolar ) / dʒ /, just as with a Korean accent.

* In case of the postalveolar affricates, native languages like Hindi have corresponding affricates articulated from the palatal region, rather than postalveolar, and they have more of a stop component than fricative ; this is reflected in their English.

In describing the phonetics of an existing language ( i. e., in synchronic descriptions ), a palatalized consonant is one pronounced with a palatal secondary articulation.

This means that the consonant is pronounced as if followed very closely by the sound ( a palatal approximant, like the sound of " y " in " yellow ").

The other meaning of palatalization is encountered in historical linguistics, and refers to a sound change in which a consonant's place of articulation becomes closer to the palatal position.

* A common assimilatory process or the result of such a process, which involves front vowels ( that is, sounds with a higher second formant such as and ) and / or the palatal approximant causing nearby phones to shift towards ( though not necessarily coming to ) the palatal articulatory position or to positions closer to the front of the mouth.

Terminology such as " palatal vowel " is found, but this is primary and not secondary articulation.

There are also phonetically palatalized consonants ( marked with an acute accent ) that contrast with this ; thus the distinction is made between " palatal " ( postalveolar ) and " palatalized ".