Affricatize

Quick meaning: Affricatize is a verb meaning (linguistics, intransitive) To become affricative.

Meaning

(linguistics, intransitive) To become affricative.

Example Sentences

The uvular stop forward shifted to become a velar stop (i.e., q>k) in many Mayan dialects, and the velar stop tended to affricatize (e.g., k>tʃ).

Coleman(1995: 376) and Palmada (1995: 308–310) have pointed out that there is a cross-linguistic tendency for fronted velar stops to affricatize in the palatal region, and have both proposed a [palatal] → [continuant] implication to account for this dependency.

The only information we can extract from Grzegorzewski (1916-1918) is, firstly, that [t] becomes palatalized before [i] and tends to affricatize into [ć], and, secondly, that the word halidi 'present, today's' [we note it in Grzegorzewski's transcription] was in his lifetime already being pronounced more like haligi (Grzegorzewski 1916–1918: 278).

Word Forms

• affricatizes
• affricatizing
• affricatized

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include affricate, deaffricate, assibilate, diphthongize, apocopate, monophthongize.

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