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Affricates are consonants that begin as stops (most often an alveolar, such as [t] or [d]) but release as a fricative (such as [s] or [z] or occasionally into a fricative trill) rather than directly into the following vowel. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  itre.cis.upenn.edu Bill Poser Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:42:23 GM When making the transition from a . consonant. to the following (voiced) vowel, the onset of voicing may occur immediately or it may be delayed by some amount. If voicing is delayed, the voiceless region at the beginning of the vowel is known ... Mandarin Chinese has just two series of stops and . affricates. , one aspirated, the other unaspirated. There is no voicing contrast. You can see this in the spectrograms and waveforms below which show the syllables written pi and bi in ... From Google Blog Search: "affricate consonant"  news.google.com American Chronicle The affricate "dz" characteristic in Macedonian speech, absent from the neighbouring south Slav languages, is found in Slavic place-names in Albania. ... and more » From Google News Search: "affricate consonant"  gekko-dq.hp.infoseek.co.jp 28px x 19px | 0.17kB [source page]  myspace-webgraphics-software.net:8080 88px x 29px | 4.20kB [source page] Send to friend Added Jun 29 2009 Font 48px Mtcorsva Get code  myspace-webgraphics-software.net:8080 72px x 35px | 3.70kB [source page] From Yahoo Image Search: "affricate consonant" |
