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affricate
noun
(af-fri-cate)
a stop and its immediately following release into a fricative that are considered to constitute a single phoneme (such as the \t\ and \sh\ of \ch\ in choose)
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affricate
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affricate consonant
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unaspirated
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voiceless
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affrication
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fricative
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velar
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obstruent
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labial consonant
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approximant
,
assibilation
,
consonant
,
labialization
,
plosive
,
bilabial
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sibilate
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rhotacism
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stop consonant
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triphthong
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palatalize
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glottal stop
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labiovelar
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rhotacize
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vocoid
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sibilant
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ecthlipsis
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vowelize
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sonorant
,
phoneme
,
intervocalic
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devoice
,
vowel
,
glottal
,
wharl
,
sound law
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metaphony
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allophone
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nonsonant
,
minimal pair
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diphthong
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iotacism
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archiphoneme
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retroflection
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nasalization
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diaphonic
,
labiodental
,
labialism
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lambdacism
,
palatal
,
equisonant
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anaptyxis
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syllabicity
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diphthongization
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geminate
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monophthongal
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semivowel
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spirant
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auslaut
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diphthongic
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assonate
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vowelless
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anlaut
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orthoepy
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morphophoneme
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rhotic
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monophthongize
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toneme
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synalepha
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velarize
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paragoge
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linguadental
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syllabize
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metaplasm
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semivocal
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articulation
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consonous
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psellism
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grave accent
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feminine rhyme
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pronunciation
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eclipsis
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retroflex
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trill
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graphemics
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devocalize
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phonetization
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lenition
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acute accent
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synaeresis
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pasigraphy
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apocope
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digraph
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syllabism
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epenthesis
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quadrisyllable
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synizesis
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inarticulation
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tetrasyllabic
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pectoriloquy
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oxytone
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syllable
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affricate
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