Affricativization

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process of making affricative. uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From affricative + -ization.

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