LEX Latin Palatals™ POSTERS

This LEXinar is comprised of four 90-minute installments investigating the historical and present-day patterns of palatized consonants in words of Latin origin.

This Study Deck for the LEX Latin Palatals™ was developed as a concise, colorful tool for readers and their teachers, to encourage continued inquiry into these patterns in Latinate words, most of which are typically taught with long lists of nonsense forms like *<-sion> or <*ture> or <*cial> or <*tious>.

The Latin Palatals™ Study Deck contains six cards featuring more than 100 words artfully arranged to visually mark the phonology of the consonants that may palatalize in words of Latin origin.

Based on orthographic linguistic research, this deck provides visual cues to the internal structures of words in the permanent context of their families. In classrooms and clinics, the cards in this Deck can contribute to both students’ and teaches’ deepening understanding of the English writing system as a whole.