Why do I find it hard not to palatalize the /g/ in digitus?

1. What is the phonological rule for palatalization?
2. What causes palatalization?
3. Which consonants can be palatalized?
4. What is the difference between palatalized and palatalization?

What is the phonological rule for palatalization?

The phonological rule changes velar stops to palatals only if they are before a front vowel. Elsewhere, the stops remain unchanged, so they remain velars. The result is the observed pattern of distribution: palatal stops occurring only before front vowels and velar stops only elsewhere.

What causes palatalization?

Palatalization sometimes refers to vowel shifts, the fronting of a back vowel or raising of a front vowel. The shifts are sometimes triggered by a nearby palatal or palatalized consonant or by a high front vowel.

Which consonants can be palatalized?

In IPA chart, there is a column named "palatal consonants", including consonants as ɲ, c, ɟ, ç, ʝ, ʎ for example. There is also a 'palatalization sign': ʲ, which can be applied to all consonants, used, for example, in Slavic languages.

What is the difference between palatalized and palatalization?

In English, consonants are palatalized when they occur before front vowels or the palatal approximant, but no words are distinguished by palatalization (complementary distribution), whereas in some of the other languages, the difference between palatalized consonants and plain un-palatalized consonants distinguish ...