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affricate consonant
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An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal). It is often difficult to decide if a stop and fricative form a single phoneme or a consonant pair. English has two affricate phonemes, and , generally spelled ch and j, respectively.
An affricate is a consonant sound that starts like a stop (where airflow is completely blocked) and then releases like a fricative (where air flows through a narrow opening), typically at the same spot in your mouth. English has two common affricates—the "ch" sound in "church" and the "j" sound in "judge"—and linguists sometimes debate whether these should be considered single sounds or pairs of sounds.
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19 sectionsContents
- Examples
- Notation
- Affricates vs. stop–fricative sequences
- Geminate affricates
- List of affricates
- Sibilant affricates
- Non-sibilant affricates
- Lateral affricates
- Trilled affricates
- Heterorganic affricates
- Phonation, coarticulation and other variants
- Phonological representation
- Affrication
- Pre-affrication
- See also
- Notes
- References
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An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal). It is often difficult to decide if a stop and fricative form a single phoneme or a consonant pair. English has two affricate phonemes, and , generally spelled ch and j, respectively.
==Examples== The English sounds spelled "ch" and "j" (broadly transcribed as and in the IPA), German and Italian z and Italian z are typical affricates, and sounds like these are fairly common in the world's languages, as are other affricates with similar sounds, such as those in Polish and Chinese. However, voiced affricates other than are relatively uncommon. For several places of articulation they are not attested at all.
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