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n. - The conversion of a simple stop consonant into a stop and its immediately following release through the articulatory position for a continuant nonsyllabic usually homorganic consonant.

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  • I would like to see an example where /o/ too induces affrication, if you have one?
  • If it were vowel height/closedness that caused the affrication, then the affricates would be the same.
  • This leaves the affrication of Japanese alveo-dental stops before /u/ to be explained by some other phenomenon.
  • I'm merely exploring a more general phenomenon here, one in which stops neighbouring closed vowels or semivowels are universally more prone to affrication.
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