[z]→[d]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5
Voiced alveolar fricative to Voiced alveolar plosive
The shift from the voiced alveolar fricative [z] to the voiced stop [d] is known as stopping. It is a frequent phenomenon in child language acquisition and appears in specific dialectal clusters where fricatives are reinforced into stops.
Phonetic Effects
Stopping, Fortition
Language Examples
zoo [z]→[du]— Substitution of easier-to-articulate stops for fricatives.
please→[plid]
/nz/ cluster→[nd]— Reinforcement of the sibilant into a stop after a nasal.
Related Transformations
More Germanic Shifts
Sources & References
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