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English
Etymology
From affricate + -ize.
Verb
affricatize (third-person singular simple present affricatizes, present participle affricatizing, simple past and past participle affricatized)
- (linguistics, intransitive) To become affricative.
1999, Wen-Chao Li, A Diachronically-motivated Segmental Phonology of Mandarin Chinese:Coleman(1995: 376) and Palmada (1995: 308–310) have pointed out that there is a cross-linguistic tendency for fronted velar stops to affricatize in the palatal region, and have both proposed a → implication to account for this dependency.
2004, Bede Fahey, Mayan: a Sino-Tibetan Language?: A Comparative Study, page 35:The uvular stop forward shifted to become a velar stop (i.e., q>k) in many Mayan dialects, and the velar stop tended to affricatize (e.g., k>tʃ).
2011, Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld, Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, page 81:The only information we can extract from Grzegorzewski (1916-1918) is, firstly, that becomes palatalized before and tends to affricatize into [ć], and, secondly, that the word halidi 'present, today's' [we note it in Grzegorzewski's transcription] was in his lifetime already being pronounced more like haligi (Grzegorzewski 1916–1918: 278).
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