affrication

9.9

A change where a simple consonant like t becomes a ch sound as in church

noun
/ˌæf.rɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Specialized

: africación

In phonetics, affrication is seen when the /t/ sound is pronounced more like /ts/ in some dialects.

Examples

In addition, atypical patterns (i.e., those not commonly exhibited in monolingual speakers) were also present (initial consonant deletion, voicing, backing, affrication, and deaspiration).

Academic text (2014)
Children often demonstrate affrication when they pronounce certain sounds in their early language development.
The teacher explained how affrication occurs when a sound changes from a stop to an affricate during speech.

Surface Forms

affrication singular

affrications plural

Morphology

affrication = affricate (transparent) = affricate + ion

The word is formed by adding the suffix '-ion' to 'affricate', indicating the process or result of affrication.

Etymology

The word affrication comes from affricate, which goes back to a Latin root meaning 'to rub' and is related to the English word friction. So affrication is easy to remember: it is the process where a hard stop sound 'rubs' into a short combined sound, for example when the 't' becomes the 'ch' sound.