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Looking for examples of natural languages with affricates but no corresponding fricatives/plosives
I was thinking about how Spanish has a /t̠ʃ/ but (in most dialects) no /ʃ/, and how many native Spanish speakers have trouble producing the sound ʃ by itself. I don't see why this couldn't apply to ...
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How to present affricates in onset consonant clusters
When an affricate is included in the onset of a word e.g., the Polish /ɡd͡ʑi/, is this a CCCV or CCV structure?
Following this, when putting it into a syllable tree, would the affricate be two ...
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How many morae would an affricate in the position of a coda have?
Would it have two, because it's technically two phonemes, or one?
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What is the syllable structure of a word with an affricate in the onset?
If a word has an affricate in the onset, let's say /ts/, along with another consonant, let's say /k/, to make a word like /tski/, is the phonotactic syllable structure of this word CCV or is it CCCV?
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Is there a difference between an affricate and a plosive+fricative consonant cluster?
Is there a difference between an affricate and a plosive+fricative consonant cluster?
According to wikipedia, there is a difference between a plosive+fricative sequence, as in the following example
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