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AFFRICATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does affrication mean?
• AFFRICATION (noun)
The noun AFFRICATION has 1 sense:
1. the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate
Familiarity information: AFFRICATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("affrication" is a kind of...):
articulation (the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech)
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