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Voiceless bilabial plosive to Voiceless postalveolar affricate

The shift from a labial stop to a postalveolar affricate is a rare but documented form of palatalization, typically occurring when the stop is followed by a high front vowel or a palatal glide.

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Affrication

Language Examples

Neapolitan Romance

più [pj-]→chiù [tʃ-]— Historical labial + glide cluster palatalized to an affricate

Romanian (Dialects) Romance

piept [p-]→kyiept [ptʃ-]— Labial stops undergo palatalization in certain Daco-Romanian varieties

Related Transformations

Reverse Voiced labial palatalization

More Romance Shifts

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

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