[ʈʂ]→[ʃ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5
Voiceless retroflex affricate to Voiceless postalveolar fricative
The voiceless retroflex affricate [ʈʂ] deaffricates to the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ]. This process preserves the fricative element while simplifying the articulation by removing the initial stop closure.
Phonetic Effects
Deaffrication
Language Examples
[ʈʂ]→[ʃ]— Common dialectal variation in Mandarin where affricates simplify to fricatives in fast speech or specific regional accents.
Related Transformations
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