verb
- converting a sound into a dental consonant; articulating a sound with the tongue against or near the teeth
Usage: linguistics; phonetics
Examples
- In some dialects, speakers are dentalizing the alveolar stops, producing sounds closer to dental consonants.
- The linguist observed that the speaker was dentalizing the /t/ sound by placing the tongue further forward.
- Dentalizing certain consonants is a natural phonetic variation across different English-speaking regions.