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PRONUNCIATION OF AFFRICATION

affrication  [ˌæfrɪˈkeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AFFRICATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Affrication is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AFFRICATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Affricate consonant

Affricates are consonants that begin as stops but release as a fricative rather than directly into the following vowel. English has two affricates, spelled ch and j.

Definition of affrication in the English dictionary

The definition of affrication in the dictionary is the changing of to an affricate.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AFFRICATION


allocation
ˌæləˈkeɪʃən
application
ˌæplɪˈkeɪʃən
authentication
ɔːˌθentɪˈkeɪʃən
certification
ˌsɜːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
classification
ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
communication
kəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən
dedication
ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən
education
ˌɛdjʊˈkeɪʃən
identification
aɪˌdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
indication
ˌɪndɪˈkeɪʃən
location
ləʊˈkeɪʃən
medication
ˌmɛdɪˈkeɪʃən
modification
ˌmɒdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
notification
ˌnəʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
publication
ˌpʌblɪˈkeɪʃən
qualification
ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
relocation
ˌriːləʊˈkeɪʃən
specification
ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
vacation
vəˈkeɪʃən
verification
ˌvɛrɪfɪˈkeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AFFRICATION

afforestation
affranchise
affranchisement
affrap
affray
affrayer
affreightment
affret
affricate
affricative
affright
affrightedly
affrighten
affrightful
affrightment
affront
affronted
affrontee
affrontingly
affrontive

WORDS THAT END LIKE AFFRICATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
association
citation
combination
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
evaluation
excitation
federation
formation
foundation
generation

Synonyms and antonyms of affrication in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «affrication» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AFFRICATION

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The translations of affrication from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «affrication» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

affrication
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

africación
570 millions of speakers

English

affrication
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

affrication
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

affrication
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

affrication
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

africação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

affrication
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

affrication
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penaklukan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

affrication
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

破擦音化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

affrication
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Affrication
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

affrication
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

affrication
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Affrication
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

affrication
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

affrication
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

affrication
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

affrication
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

affrication
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

affrication
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

affrication
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

affrication
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

affrication
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of affrication

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AFFRICATION»

The term «affrication» is used very little and occupies the 184.269 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AFFRICATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about affrication

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AFFRICATION»

Discover the use of affrication in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to affrication and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Principles of Phonetics
In the case of affrication, the preferred choice in this hook is to opt for treating affrication as a co- ordinatory relationship hetween adjacent segments rather than as a property of one single segment of the two involved. The henefit lies in the ...
John Laver, 1994
2
Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology
In this paper I discuss the process of affrication in Japanese in the framework of element theory (Kaye, Lowenstamm and Vergnaud 1985, 1990; Harris 1990, 1994; Harris and Lindsey 1995). In element theory, affrication is viewed as a process ...
Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer, Tetsuo Nishihara, 2001
3
Markedness and Economy in a Derivational Model of Phonology
This passage implies that affrication is an adjustment meant to fix the problem posed by the laminal type of stop release. The issue remains, however, of why we have affrication as an adjustment in this case. Nothing is actually said about it.
Andrea Calabrese, 2005
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Loan Phonology
Spurious affrication In this section we report on the existence of BPE productions in which the sequence tu in English surfaces with an affricated coronal consonant instead. To understand why this puzzling and BPE-specific L2 phenomenon ...
Andrea Calabrese, Leo Wetzels, 2009
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Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic ...
Instead, we shall focus on one linguistic element, a Copenhagen sociolinguistic variable that varies across the two high-school classes as part of the style clusters: the affrication of t in onset position. Brink and Lund (1975: 353 355) report that ...
Peter Auer, Jürgen Erich Schmidt, 2010
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The Dialects of Irish: Study of a Changing Landscape
that older males have least affrication. The 80-year old male speaker from Toraigh (Tory Island) – see Free Speech recordings for Northern Irish on the accompanying DVD – has no affricate realisations of /t", d"/ at all. Middle-aged male ...
Raymond Hickey, 2011
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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual ...
Other segments including front vowels that are [-high] block affrication. The domain of affrication is found to be the stem, therefore segments that are adjacent to /g/ but not part of the stem do not affect the process. Further, due to paradigmatic ...
Elabbas Benmamoun, 2007
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Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Children with Speech ...
One nondevelopmental error pattern was observed: affrication of /s/ and /I/. ... finally final-consonant deletion machine tIin weak syllable deletion, weak syllable deletion, affrication of /I/ affrication lollies WDWi gliding of /l/ X 2, /Z/ deletes gliding, ...
Barbara Dodd, 2013
9
Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy
Another piece of evidence against the assimilatory hypothesis can be found in the phonological process of /s/ affrication occurring after a sonorant segment in Tuscan and in many other central and southern varieties of Italian: ['bortsa], [' pεntso] ...
Lori Repetti, 2000
10
Auditory Representations in Phonology
As discussed in connection with palato-alveolars (§3.2), a broad closure of this kind leads to a slower release, and a tendency to affrication. This situation differs from the palatalization of velars because it is possible to produce a palatalized ...
Edward S. Flemming, 2013

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AFFRICATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term affrication is used in the context of the following news items.
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TransAlta's (TAC) CEO Dawn Farrell on Q1 2015 Results - Earnings …
With the affrication of the cash proceed funding of premium broke down our ratio is expected to increase to 16.5%. The strengthening of U.S. ... «Seeking Alpha, Apr 15»
2
Tunisians Vote for Democracy Dream
... a vote that will bring the first democratically-elected parliament in the north Affrication nation amid hopes for peaceful transition to democracy. «Onislam.net, Oct 14»

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