[tʃ]→[∅]Certainty: 3/5Commonality: 2/5
Voiceless postalveolar affricate to Empty sound / Zero
The elision of the affricate [tʃ] is a rare process, as affricates typically undergo deaffrication (weakening to a fricative like [ʃ]) rather than disappearing entirely. However, total elision can occur in extreme cases of intervocalic lenition or during the simplification of complex consonant clusters.
Phonetic Effects
Elision, Lenition, Cluster Simplification
Language Examples
facere [k/tʃ]→fare [∅]— Syncope of the unstressed medial vowel created a cluster *facre, which then simplified entirely: the medial consonant was lost. The [tʃ] (Late Latin reflex of [k] before front vowel) did not survive.
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