Voiced Postalveolar Affricate

The voiced palato-alveolar fricative or '''domed postalveolar affricate''' is a type of Consonant al sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is {Link without Title} . Alternatives commonly used in linguistic works, particularly in older or American literature, are . It is familiar to English speakers as the 'j' sound in jump.

FEATURES

Features of the voiced postalveolar affricate:

Its Manner Of Articulation is Sibilant Affricate , which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then directing it through a groove in the tongue and over the sharp edge of the teeth, causing high-frequency Turbulence .

Its Place Of Articulation is ''palato-alveolar'', that is, domed (partially Palatalized ) Postalveolar , which means it is articulated with the front of the Tongue behind the Alveolar Ridge , and the body of the tongue bunched up ("domed") at the Palate .

Its Phonation type is voiced, which means it is produced while vibrating the vocal cords.

It is an Oral Consonant , which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.

It is a Central Consonant , which means it is produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the middle of the tongue, rather than the sides.

The Airstream Mechanism is Pulmonic Egressive , which means it is articulated by pushing air out of the Lung s and through the vocal tract, rather than from the Glottis or the mouth.

IN ENGLISH

The voiced postalveolar affricate occurs in English , and it is the sound denoted by the letter 'g' in ''giraffe'' and the letter 'j' in ''jump''.

IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Croatian

In Croatian it is a phoneme represented by the letter ''ǆ'' which is a "double" letter along with ''ǉ'' and ''ǌ''.

Czech

In Czech, this sound is represented by Digraph ''dž''. It occurs almost in words of foreign origin (e. g. ''džem'' , jam). It is also a voiced realisation of ''č'' Voiceless Postalveolar Affricate before voiced Consonant s, e. g. ''léčba'' , treatment.

Faroese

In Faroese, this sound is represented by ''dj'', or by ''g + e, i, y'', or ''ey''. However, some scholars believe this sound to be a Voiced Palatal Plosive , but this might just be dialectically dependant.

Scots Gaelic and Irish

In Irish and Scottish Gaelic (most notably in Scottish Gaelic), a slender ''d'' (slender meaning placed beside an ''e'' or an ''i'') takes on this sound; ''Dia'' (Irish and Scots Gaelic) "God", ''Oíche Mhic Dé'' (Irish) "Night of God's Son", ''deas'' (Scots Gaelic) "ready".

Hungarian

In Hungarian, this sound is represented by the only Trigraph of the language, Dzs .

Italian

In Italian, this sound is represented by ''g'' before ''i'' or ''e'', such as in ''giallo'' (//), yellow, or in ''gemma'' (//), gem.

Portuguese

In Brazilian Portuguese , the phoneme Voiced Alveolar Plosive#Portuguese has the allophone before Close Front Unrounded Vowel (spelled as ''i'' or unstressed ''e''). A similar change converts Voiceless Alveolar Plosive into in the same environment.

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