[dʒ]→[d]Certainty: 3/5Commonality: 2/5
Voiced postalveolar affricate to Voiced alveolar plosive
Deaffrication of the voiced alveolar affricate [dʒ] to the voiced alveolar plosive [d] is a sound change that eliminates the fricative release component while preserving voicing and place. This process occurs both as a phonological change and in synchronic variation across multiple language families.
Phonetic Effects
Deaffrication, Loss Of Frication
Language Examples
[dʒ]→[d]— Deaffrication in early child language development, commonly occurring in words like 'judge' → [ˈdʌd].
[dʒ]→[d]— Deaffrication in rapid or casual speech, affecting the realization of borrowed affricates.
[dʒ]→[d]— Dialectal deaffrication of word-initial [dʒ] in some Brazilian Portuguese varieties.
Related Transformations
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