affricative
nounHow many syllables in affricative?
There are 4 syllables in the word affricative.How to pronounce affricative:
Definition of affricative:
- affricative (noun):
- a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as ch' inchair' and j' injoy').
- 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)
Synonyms for affricative:
affricate
affricate consonant
obstruent
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