affrication

[ US /ˌæfɹəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate
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How To Use affrication In A Sentence

  • Similarly loans such as "chamber", "champion", "chalice" don't have an initial affricate because of "mishearing" the French, but because of representing a loan before deaffrication or from a conservativ variety, or vice versa as in the last case. Edward Sapir and the Philistine headdress
  • That is, motivated by prestige and upward mobility, lower class women try to imitate the speech of the upper class but miss the target and end up with affrication rather than frication.
  • If it were vowel height/closedness that caused the affrication, then the affricates would be the same. Concern trolls and the Etruscan bilabial 'f'
  • Similarly loans such as "chamber", "champion", "chalice" don't have an initial affricate because of "mishearing" the French, but because of representing a loan before deaffrication or from a conservativ variety, or vice versa as in the last case. Edward Sapir and the Philistine headdress
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