[ts]→[t]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5
Voiceless alveolar affricate to Voiceless alveolar plosive
Deaffrication. The alveolar affricate [ts] simplifies to a simple alveolar stop [t], losing its fricative release. This is commonly seen in child language or in the adaptation of loanwords into languages that lack affricates.
Phonetic Effects
Deaffrication
Language Examples
Child Language Universal
ts→t— Common simplification during language acquisition.
Related Transformations
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