jueves, 23 de febrero de 2012

Affricate:

it refers to a sound made when the air-pressure behind a complete closure in the vocal tract is gradually released; the initial release produces a plosive, but the separation which follows is sufficiently slow to produce audible friction, and there is thus a fricative element in the sound also. However, the duration of the friction is usually not as long as would be the case of an independent fricative sound.