Otomi Oto-Mangue oxymoron [Grk oxymoron ‘pointedly foolish’]

A figure of speech of semantic abbreviation. A paradoxical connection of two opposite terms within a word or within a phrase, e.g. dry humor (from Lat. humor ‘moisture’), terribly nice. ( also antithesis)

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figure of speech

Speech sound classified according to its place of articulation (hard palate), e.g. [j] in [jεs] yes and in Ital. bagno ‘bath.’ ( also articulatory phonetics, palatoalveolar, phonetics)

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phonetics

Change, conditioned through assimilation, in the place of articulation of consonants and vowels towards the hard palate ( secondary articulation). In consonants it usually involves dentals or velars with a neighboring front vowel (mostly i, y), cf. e.g. the

generally involves a fronting of back vowels ( vowel harmony).