[ð]→[d]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 5/5

Voiced dental fricative to Voiced alveolar plosive

The shift from the voiced dental fricative [ð] to the voiced stop [d] is known as stopping. This is a very common phonological process where a fricative loses its continuous airflow and becomes a plosive.

Phonetic Effects

Stopping

Language Examples

New York English Germanic

this [ðɪs]→dis [dɪs]— Often stigmatized but widespread stopping.

Caribbean English Germanic

that [ðæt]→dat [dæt]— Systematic stopping of dental fricatives.

African American Vernacular English Germanic

the [ðə]→da [də]— Initial stopping is common.

Related Transformations

Reverse Voiceless equivalent

More Germanic Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [æ] → [ɛ] — Vowel Raising

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