affricate
- noun
- /ˈæfrɪkeɪt/
- Specialized
:
africada
- In English, the affricate ch is pronounced as a combination of a stop and a fricative sound.
- affricates and fricatives
- affricates and glides
- affricates and nasals
Examples
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Therefore, ch represents a voiceless aspirated palatal affricate, and sh represents a voiceless alveopalatal fricative.
Academic text (1999) -
The stimuli were separated into the categories of plosives, fricatives, affricates, nasals, and semivowels.
Academic text (1991) -
Further, English affricates /?, ?/ are not produced in native Arabic words in the same manner as in English.
Academic text (2014) -
Further, Korean does not have English stops /b, d, g/, affricates /?, ?/, liquid /?/, or glides /w, j/.
Academic text (2014) -
The error pattern of stopping occurs when a fricative or affricate is replaced by a stop consonant that shares the same place of articulation.
Academic text (2015) -
Finally, no child had the affricates ts and dz in his or her consonant inventory.
Academic text (2012) -
Other English sounds not present in Cantonese include voiced stops /b, d, g/, affricates /?, ?/, and liquid /a/ (McLeod, 2007).
Academic text (2014) -
Accuracy for all six manner classes was generally high; stops, nasals, affricates, and glides (but not liquids and fricatives) averaged over 90% accuracy at all five times.
Academic text (2014) -
First, it would be interesting to look at syllabic plural production after other sibilants, such as /?/ in dishes /dI??z/ and the affricates /t?/ in peaches /pi:t??z/ and /d?/ in judges /d??s??z/.
Academic text (2013) -
The teacher explained that the affricate j occurs in the middle of the word 'judge'.
Synonyms
A sound that starts blocked then changes to a noisy hiss, like ch in chair or j in joy
A speech sound made by stopping air then releasing a short noisy burst, like the 'ch' in chair
Compounds
- Specialized
A sound that starts blocked then changes to a noisy hiss, like ch in chair or j in joy
How Prolongable
- Specialized
23
1.0
- Specialized
1
7.6
- Specialized
- Specialized
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word affricate comes from the Latin parts ad- 'to' and fricare 'to rub', and it shares the same root as friction ('rubbing'). So an affricate is a single speech sound that starts with a stop and then becomes a 'rubbing' sound called a 'fricative', which is why it combines both parts.