Voiced alveolar affricate
A voiced alveolar affricate is a type of affricate consonant pronounced with the tip or blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge just behind the teeth. There are several types of median affricates with significant perceptual differences:
- A alveolar sibilant affricate|voiced alveolar sibilant affricate] is the most common type, similar to the ds in English lads.
- A voiced alveolar non-sibilant affricate - or, using the alveolar diacritic from the Extended IPA, - is found, for example, in some dialects of English and Italian.
- A voiced retracted alveolar sibilant affricate or.
Voiced alveolar sibilant affricate
Features
Features of a voiced alveolar sibilant affricate:- The stop component of this affricate is laminal alveolar, which means it is articulated with the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge. For simplicity, this affricate is usually called after the sibilant fricative component.
- There are at least three specific variants of the fricative component:
- * laminal alveolar|Dentalized laminal alveolar], which means it is articulated with the tongue blade very close to the upper front teeth, with the tongue tip resting behind lower front teeth. The hissing effect in this variety of is very strong.
- * Non-retracted alveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, termed respectively apical and laminal.
- * Retracted alveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue slightly behind the alveolar ridge, termed respectively apical and laminal. Acoustically, it is close to or laminal.
Occurrence