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P

Palatal

Referring to the hard or soft palate. As a primary articulation, a consonant produced at the boundary between the hard and soft palate.

Palatalization

Either a secondary articulation made by superimposing a y-like articulation on a consonant, or a wholesale change of a consonant’s place of articulation to alveopalatal.

Palato-alveolar

An articulation between the tongue blade and the back of the alveolar ridge.

Paradigm

A paradigm consists of a base word (e.g. a noun or a verb) with all its inflected (and sometimes derived) forms, e.g. the paradigm of the English verb "to ponder" includes [ponder], [ponders], [pondered], [pondering], etc.

Parallelism

In phonology, parallelism refers to the idea (explored in Optimality Theory, for instance) that rules are not sequentially ordered (one applying after another) but that different aspects of a representation (phonological, morphological, semantic) are evaluated at the same time.

Partial suppletion

See suppletion.

Partitive

In case systems, the case that denotes a subpart of a collective entity.

Passive

See voice (morphology).

Passive articulator

The place of articulation to which the active articulator moves to form a constriction in the vocal tract. For example, in palatal sounds the passive articulator is the hard palate, to which the active articulator (the front of the tongue) moves (cf. active articulator).

Patient

A semantic role; the participant that undergoes an action.

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