[ʃ]→[tʃ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5
Voiceless postalveolar fricative to Voiceless postalveolar affricate
The shift from 'sh' (ʃ) to 'ch' (tʃ) is an affrication process where a post-alveolar fricative gains a stop component, becoming an affricate.
Phonetic Effects
Affrication
Language Examples
ʃ→tʃ— English loanwords in various languages often undergo affrication.
Child Language N/A
ʃ→tʃ— Common substitution in early language acquisition.
Related Transformations
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