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affricativization en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From affricative + -ization.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The process of making affricative.
    • Palatalization and affricativization processes are reported for KU ( Franchetto 1995 ). 1999, Robert M. W. Dixon, R. M. W. Dixon, A. Iu Aikhenvald, The Amazonian Languages:
    • In the second half of the paper I extend the hierarchy in order to explain cases of lengthening and affricativization of obstruents in the environment of non-obstruent non-syllabics. 1973, Linguistic Society of America, Meeting Handbook - Volumes 48-50, page 50:
    • First, /t/ and /d/, when followed by /y/, were subject to affricativization, as in (58; Pardess 1990: 106). 1999, Peter R. Petrucci, Slavic Features in the History of Rumanian, page 79:

Synonyms

affricatization · affrication