Affricate Consonant (Noun)
Meaning
A composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy').
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The pronunciation of the affricate consonant in "church" is different from that in "churchyard".
- Affricate consonants, like "ch" in "child", can be challenging for non-native speakers to master.
- In some languages, affricate consonants have different forms in initial and final positions, as seen in "bench" and "snatch".
- Phonetic analysis of words like "magic" and "general" shows that they share a similar affricate consonant.
- Children often struggle with articulating affricate consonants in words like "stretch" and "pleasure".