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affricatizing

affricatizing is the present participle and gerund of affricatize.

Meaning of affricatize

Verb

affricatize (third-person singular simple present affricatizes, present participle affricatizing, simple past and past participle affricatized)

  1. (intransitive) To become affricative.
    • 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.1999, Wen-Chao Li, A Diachronically-motivated Segmental Phonology of Mandarin Chinese

Questions about affricatizing

What is affricatizing the present participle and gerund of?
Affricatizing is the present participle and gerund of affricatize.

Words near affricatizing in the dictionary

  1. affricativization
  2. affricatization
  3. affricatize
  4. affricatized
  5. affricatizes
  6. affricatizing
  7. affriction
  8. affrictions
  9. affriended
  10. affright
  11. affrighted

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