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[tʲ]→[ʃ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Spirantization Palatalization Slavic Romance

Palatalized voiceless alveolar plosive to Voiceless postalveolar fricative

The shift from 'tʲ' to 'ʃ' is a case of spirantization where a palatalized dental stop simplifies into a postalveolar fricative. This change often occurs via an intermediate affricate stage [tʃ].

Phonetic Effects

Spirantization, Palatalization

Language Examples

Slavic Dialects Slavic

tʲ→ʃ— Dialectal variation where palatalized dental stops simplify to postalveolar fricatives.

Brazilian Portuguese Romance

t [tʲ]→ʃ— In certain dialects, /t/ before /i/ becomes [tʃ] and can simplify further.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Romance Shifts

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

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