Affricatize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To become affricative. intransitive

    "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."

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fricatize

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"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."

Etymology

From affricate + -ize.

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