affricate
noun[C]
phoneticsspecializeduk/ˈæf.rɪ.kət/us/ˈæf.rɪ.kət/aconsonantsoundthat consists of aplosiveand then africativemade in the sameplacein themouth:
塞擦音The "ch"soundat thebeginningand end of "church" is an affricate.单词church中,起始音和终结音ch都是塞擦音。
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- anaphoric
- chatty
- colloquial
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- etymologically
- flowery
- oxymoron
- philological
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism
- prescriptivist