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Meaning of affricativization | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The process of making affricative.

uncountable

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.”
“Palatalization and affricativization processes are reported for KU ( Franchetto 1995 ).”
“First, /t/ and /d/, when followed by /y/, were subject to affricativization, as in (58; Pardess 1990: 106).”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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