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affricativization

affricativization noun: the process of making affricative.

Noun

affricativization (uncountable)

  1. The process of making affricative.
    • 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 50
    • Palatalization and affricativization processes are reported for KU ( Franchetto 1995 ).1999, Robert M. W. Dixon, R. M. W. Dixon, A. Iu Aikhenvald, The Amazonian Languages

Synonyms of affricativization

Origin of affricativization

From affricative + -ization.

Questions about affricativization

What does affricativization mean?
Affricativization means the process of making affricative.
What part of speech is affricativization?
Affricativization is a noun.

Words near affricativization in the dictionary

  1. affricating
  2. affrication
  3. affrications
  4. affricative
  5. affricatives
  6. affricativization
  7. affricatization
  8. affricatize
  9. affricatized
  10. affricatizes
  11. affricatizing

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