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Allophony Phonology Consonants Romance Quechuan

Voiceless postalveolar affricate to Voiceless postalveolar fricative

The reduction of a voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/ to a voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ] is an example of deaffrication. This process involves the loss of the initial stop component of the affricate, leaving only the fricative portion.

Phonetic Effects

Deaffrication

Language Examples

Italian (Tuscan Gorgia) Romance

/tʃ/→[ʃ]— Intervocalic deaffrication in regional speech.

Quechua Quechuan

/tʃ/→[ʃ]— Occurs in the coda position.

Related Transformations

Affrication

More Romance Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [ai] → [e] — Monophthongization

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