affricativization

English

Etymology

affricative +‎ -ization

Noun

affricativization (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The process of making affricative.
   • 1973, Linguistic Society of America, Meeting Handbook - Volumes 48-50, page 50:

     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.

   • 1999, Robert M. W. Dixon, R. M. W. Dixon, A. Iu Aikhenvald, The Amazonian Languages:

     Palatalization and affricativization processes are reported for KU ( Franchetto 1995 ).

   • 1999, Peter R. Petrucci, Slavic Features in the History of Rumanian, page 79:

     First, /t/ and /d/, when followed by /y/, were subject to affricativization, as in (58; Pardess 1990: 106).