Talk:Voiced palatal plosive

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Isn't the h sound in English huge an example of this phoneme?

For some people, that h isn't far from a voiceless palatal fricative. The voiced palatal plosive sounds more like an English j.

The closest you can get in English to this sound is in words like geek, where the velar g is followed by a vowel articulated around the palate, which has the effect of partially palatalizing the g. But if you turn the fricative h in huge into a plosive you'll get the right sound. --AdiJapan 08:25, 20 November 2005 (UTC)