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[ɾ]→[tʃ]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 2/5

Voiced alveolar flap to Voiceless postalveolar affricate

The transformation from an alveolar flap to a voiceless palato-alveolar affricate is a process of assibilation and palatalization, where a rhotic sound strengthens into an obstruent with a fricative release.

Phonetic Effects

Assibilation, Palatalization, Fortition

Language Examples

Andean Spanish Romance

r/ɾ→[tʃ/ʃ]— In some rural highland dialects, rhotics can be assibilated and sometimes devoiced toward an affricate or fricative articulation.

Related Transformations

Assibilation Weakening

More Romance Shifts

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

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