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affricative::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | affricate, affricate consonant |
| Type of | obstruent |
Examples of affricative
affricative
The voiced postalveolar affricative sometimes occurs as an alternative to the fricative.
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Since there is no voiced plosive and affricative consonants in Cantonese, the scheme make use of these unused voiced symbols for unaspirated.
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Israeli-born, French raised Ann chirps her delicate songs with nary a hard consonant, as if she knows the tiniest affricative could ruin everything.
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- Affricate: a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')
- Affricates are consonants that begin as stops (most often an alveolar, such as or) but release as a fricative (such as or or occasionally into a fricative trill) rather than directly into the following vowel.
- An affricate; Of, or relating to an affricate
- An affricative is a phone which can be thought of as a very rapid, blended sequence of a stop and a fricative. The stop and fricative must be produced in a very similar positions in the mouth. ...
