affricativization

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Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

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"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)."

From affricative + -ization.

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