[ʒ]→[y]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5
Voiced postalveolar fricative to Close front rounded vowel
The shift from the voiced postalveolar fricative [ʒ] to the palatal glide [j] (here represented by 'y') is a reduction process. This is most notably observed in Spanish 'yeísmo' dialects where [ʒ] variants of the palatal lateral or palatal glide reduce to a pure glide.
Phonetic Effects
Reduction, Glide Formation
Language Examples
[ʒ]→[j]— Yeísmo variants where [ʒ] reduces to [j].
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