Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe 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 Languages2 more examples
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 50First, /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 79Synonyms: affrication, affricatization
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe process of making affricative.
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