Affricate (definition)

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An affricate sound is a consonant consisting of a stop followed by a fricative with the same place of articulation.

  • the affricate sounds of English are [tʃ,ʤ].

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  • Crystal, D. (2008) Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.