Affricates

L220

Affricates are speech sounds where the airstream is momnetarily blocked and then released as a fricative in the oral cavity by an articular (lips, tongue) at some point of articulation (lips, upper teeth, alveolar ridge, hard palate, soft palate, velum). An affricate is a complex sound with a stop phase and a release-fricative phase. Affricates may be voiced or unvoiced:

The basic affricates include:

voiceless:

1. dental, alveolar
2. palatal

voiced:

1. denttal, alveolar
2. palatal

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