[tʃ]→[d]Certainty: 3/5Commonality: 2/5
Voiceless postalveolar affricate to Voiced alveolar plosive
Deaffrication of the voiceless postalveolar affricate [tʃ] to the voiced alveolar plosive [d] represents a complex sound change combining loss of frication, place change, and voicing assimilation. This process is attested both in historical sound change and in synchronic phonological variation across languages.
Phonetic Effects
Deaffrication, Voicing, Place Change
Language Examples
[tʃ]→[d] (lenited in certain contexts)— Deaffrication of /t͡ʃ/ occurs between vowels in leniting environments, with voicing assimilation from adjacent vowels conditioning the outcome.
[tʃ]→[d]— Deaffrication in early child language development, where affricates are simplified to stop consonants, common until approximately age 4-5.
[tʃ]→[d] (in rapid speech)— Deaffrication can occur in colloquial or rapid speech contexts as a lenition process.
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