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affrication

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Noun1.affrication - the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate
articulation - the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech


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Another sample analysis: Affrication in Northumbrian English The hypothesis stemming from the studies of Morsbach, Bulbring, Pogatscher, Kluge and others that the North of England lacked the process of palatalisation of [k] was usually exemplified by forms like kirk 'church' or rig 'ridge', generally considered to be typical of the North.
According to Miller and Nicely (1961:174-175), when frequencies above 1000 cps are filtered out of the speech, the features of place of articulation and duration are effectively absent, leaving nasality, affrication, and voicing to do all the work.
Based on articulatory and spectrographic analyses, Haeri distinguished frication (weak palatalization) and affrication (strong palatalization) of dental stops /t, d, T, D, tt, dd/ next to palatal sounds.
 
 
 
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