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Affricates | Affricate

Affricates meaning

plural of affricate

Using Affricates

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of affricate
  • In the example corpus, affricates often appears in combinations such as: and affricates, affricates and, affricates are.

Context around Affricates

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 2 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

alveolar 1× implosive 1× stops 1×

Sentence patterns with Affricates

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

affricates and co 1× affricates are quite 1× affricates often behave 1× all the affricates as well 1× but implosive affricates and fricatives 1× fricatives and affricates 1× fricatives and affricates are the 1× fricatives and affricates as well 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

affricates and co 1× affricates are quite 1× affricates often behave 1× fricatives and affricates 1× implosive stops are 1× lack of voicing 1×

Common sentence endings:

affricates as well 2× affricates and fricatives 1× and chinese citation 1× apraxics to produce 1× common than fricatives 1× distinctive mandarin development 1×

Words around Affricates

Just before it in the word index:

affricate 7 affric 7 affray 83 afforestation 18 affords 106 affording 67

Just after it in the word index:

affron 3 affront 94 affronted 7 affronts 4 affs 5 afft 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aanand 16 abcd 16 abdurrahman 16 aberdour 16 abergele 16 abg 16

Corpus analysis for Affricates

  • In this selection, "affricates" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, alveolar, implosive and stops stand out and add context to how "affricates" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include affricates and co and affricates are quite. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "affricates" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with affricates

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Affricates are quite common around the world, though less common than fricatives. (12 words)

Fricatives and affricates are the most difficult phonemes for apraxics to produce. (12 words)

Implosive stops are not uncommon, but implosive affricates and fricatives are rare. (12 words)

Longer example sentences

However, in all literature only the characters for palato-alveolar affricates and fricatives are used, even when the same sources use for other languages like Polish and Chinese. citation. (29 words)

The labial, dental, and lateral releases, on the other hand, are typically "noisy": they are longer, lip- or tooth-sucking sounds with turbulent airflow, and are sometimes called affricates. (29 words)

Affricates and co-articulated consonants Co-articulated consonants are sounds that involve two simultaneous places of articulation (are pronounced using two parts of the vocal tract ). (26 words)

Example sentences (13)

Affricates and co-articulated consonants Co-articulated consonants are sounds that involve two simultaneous places of articulation (are pronounced using two parts of the vocal tract ).

Affricates are quite common around the world, though less common than fricatives.

Affricates often behave as if they were intermediate between stops and fricatives, but phonetically they are sequences of a stop and fricative.

Fricatives and affricates are the most difficult phonemes for apraxics to produce.

However, in all literature only the characters for palato-alveolar affricates and fricatives are used, even when the same sources use for other languages like Polish and Chinese. citation.

Implosive stops are not uncommon, but implosive affricates and fricatives are rare.

Lack of voicing contrast in obstruents Many languages lack a distinction between voiced and voiceless obstruents (stops, affricates, and fricatives).

Similarly, voiced plosives and affricates have become voiceless aspirates in the "even" tone and voiceless non-aspirates in others, another distinctive Mandarin development.

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Some Indigenous Australian languages contrast dental, alveolar, retroflex, and palatal laterals, and many Native American languages have lateral fricatives and affricates as well.

The labial, dental, and lateral releases, on the other hand, are typically "noisy": they are longer, lip- or tooth-sucking sounds with turbulent airflow, and are sometimes called affricates.

The occlusives and affricates have a special aspirated series (transcribed with an apostrophe after the letter): p’, t’, c’, k’ (but č).

This can be combined with other manners, resulting in lateral approximants (the most common), lateral flaps, and lateral fricatives and affricates.

This occurs with the tense fricative and all the affricates as well.

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Common combinations with affricates

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "affricates" in a sentence?
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What does "affricates" mean?
Affricates means: plural of affricate
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