Present participle of dentalise; the ongoing process of transforming a sound into a dental sound.
From dentalise + -ing suffix forming the gerund and present participle. Standard verb form construction in British English.
In real-time speech perception experiments, linguists can actually catch people dentalising their sounds as they speak—sometimes unconsciously shifting how they pronounce things based on who they're talking to.
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