Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal). It is often difficult to decide if a stop and fricative form a single phoneme or a consonant pair.[1] English has two affricate phonemes, /t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/, often spelled ch and j, respectively.

  1. ^ Roach, Peter (2009). "English Phonetics and Phonology Glassary" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 12, 2015.

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