affrication

I'm merely exploring a more general phenomenon here, one in which stops neighbouring closed vowels or semivowels are universally more prone to affrication.

Concern trolls and the Etruscan bilabial 'f' 2009

This leaves the affrication of Japanese alveo-dental stops before /u/ to be explained by some other phenomenon.

Concern trolls and the Etruscan bilabial 'f' 2009

"Independantly, tso being the regular realization of /to/ doesn't fly as a free assumption either — a non-close back vowel is about the least likely to trigger affrication."

Linear A treatment of consonant clusters 2009

Independantly, tso being the regular realization of /to/ doesn't fly as a free assumption either — a non-close back vowel is about the least likely to trigger affrication.

Linear A treatment of consonant clusters 2009

The Japanese facts could just as well be explained as a similar case of affrication before high vowels with a secondary process of palatalisation before /i/.

Concern trolls and the Etruscan bilabial 'f' 2009

I would like to see an example where /o/ too induces affrication, if you have one?

Linear A treatment of consonant clusters 2009

"Independantly, tso being the regular realization of /to/ doesn't fly as a free assumption either — a non-close back vowel is about the least likely to trigger affrication."

Linear A treatment of consonant clusters 2009

If it were vowel height/closedness that caused the affrication, then the affricates would be the same.

Concern trolls and the Etruscan bilabial 'f' 2009

Anita is disturbed but Michael comminates that he will reserve her case tomorrow for the ordinary Guglielmus even if she should practise a pious fraud during affrication which, from experience, she knows (according to Wadding), to be leading to nullity.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Every single francophone initially pronounces it like soldier but without the affrication on the d the change the i makes, and everyone corrects them to the l-less variant.

languagehat.com: SOLDER. 2004