verb
- to convert (a consonant sound) into a dental consonant; to articulate with the tongue against the teeth
Usage: linguistics; chiefly British spelling (American: dentalize)
Examples
- In some dialects, speakers dentalise the alveolar stops.
- The linguist observed how certain populations dentalise their fricatives.
- When you dentalise a sound, you move the point of articulation forward to the teeth.