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[dʒ]→[ʂ]Certainty: 3/5Commonality: 2/5

Spirantization Devoicing Retraction Sinitic

Voiced postalveolar affricate to Voiceless retroflex fricative

Middle Chinese [dʒ] (崇 group, Baxter dzr-) gave the fricative [ʂ] in a subset of oblique-tone Mandarin words, chiefly in the 止 rime class, rather than the regular unaspirated affricate [ʈʂ] (see j_affricate_to_ch_retroflex). The outcome is lexically restricted.

Phonetic Effects

Spirantization, Devoicing, Retraction

Language Examples

Mandarin Chinese Sinitic

Middle Chinese 士 dzriX 'scholar'→shì [ʂɨ]— Regular development would be zhì; spirantization to shì is lexically restricted.

Middle Chinese 事 dzriH 'matter'→shì [ʂɨ]— Regular development would be zhì; spirantization to shì is lexically restricted.

Middle Chinese 仕 dzriX 'serve as official'→shì [ʂɨ]— Regular development would be zhì; spirantization to shì is lexically restricted.

More Devoicing Shifts

[b] → [p] — Voice Loss [b] → [v] — Spirantization [d] → [t] — Voice Loss [d] → [ð] — Spirantization [dz] → [l] — Deaffrication

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