[ʃ]→[ʒ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5
Voiceless postalveolar fricative to Voiced postalveolar fricative
The shift from the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ] (sh) to the voiced postalveolar fricative [ʒ] (zh) is a standard form of voicing lenition. It typically occurs in intervocalic positions where the voiceless fricative is influenced by the surrounding voiced sounds.
Phonetic Effects
Voicing, Lenition
Language Examples
version [ʃ]→[ʒ]— Individual or dialectal variation where the intervocalic sibilant is voiced.
festa [ʃ] (coda)→festa de [ʒ]— External sandhi voicing where coda /s/ realized as [ʃ] becomes [ʒ] before a voiced consonant.
Related Transformations
More Romance Shifts
Sources & References
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