[tʃ]→[z]Certainty: 3/5Commonality: 2/5
Voiceless postalveolar affricate to Voiced alveolar fricative
The transformation of a voiceless palato-alveolar affricate /tʃ/ into a voiced alveolar fricative /z/, typically involving stages of deaffrication and voicing.
Phonetic Effects
Deaffrication, Voicing
Language Examples
/tʃ/→[z]— In Old/Medieval Portuguese, the voiced affricate /dʒ/ could simplify to [ʒ]/[z]; whether the voiceless /tʃ/ directly shifted to [z] (requiring voicing) is less clear. The specific lexical context is not given in the source.
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