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

Voiced alveolar flap to Voiced postalveolar affricate

The transformation from an alveolar flap to a voiced palato-alveolar affricate is a process of assibilation and fortition, where a rhotic sound strengthens into an obstruent with an initial stop component.

Phonetic Effects

Assibilation, Fortition, Palatalization

Language Examples

Andean Spanish Romance

ɾ→[dʒ]— In many highland dialects (e.g. Ecuador, Bolivia), the rhotic is realized as a voiced fricative or affricate.

Polish Indo-European

[rʲ] [historical]→[ʐ/dʐ]— The historical palatalized rhotic (rz) assibilated into a voiced retroflex/palatal sound, which in some clusters is realized as an affricate.

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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