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noun
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Also called affricative. a speech sound comprising occlusion, plosion, and frication, as either of the ch-sounds in church and the j-sound in joy.
verb (used with object)
2.
to change the pronunciation of (a stop) to an affricate, especially by releasing (the stop) slowly.
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Affricate
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| articulated with relatively relaxed tongue muscles |
| to change a speech sound to an articulation requiring less effort, as from geminate to nongeminate or from stop to fricative |
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affricate
a consonant sound that begins as a stop (sound with complete obstruction of the breath stream) and concludes with a fricative (sound with incomplete closure and a sound of friction). Examples of affricates are the ch sound in English chair, which may be represented phonetically as a t sound followed by sh; the j in English jaw (a d followed by the zh sound heard in French jour or in English azure); and the ts sound often heard in German and spelled with z as in zehn, meaning ten
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