The voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate, voiced post-alveolar affricate or voiced domed postalveolar sibilant affricate, is a type of
consonantal sound, used in some
spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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with (formerly the ligature ), or in some
broad transcriptions , and the equivalent
X-SAMPA representation is
dZ. Alternatives commonly used in linguistic works, particularly in older or American literature, are , , , and . It is familiar to English speakers as the pronunciation of in ''jump.'' it is the prounounciation of the Albanian letter xh, also the sound of j- in noolaf.
Features
Features of the voiced postalveolar affricate:
Occurrence
Voiced postalveolar non-sibilant affricate
Features
* Its
place of articulation is
postalveolar
Postalveolar or post-alveolar consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the ''back'' of the alveolar ridge. Articulation is farther back in the mouth than the alveolar consonants, which are at the ridge itself, but no ...
, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue behind the alveolar ridge.
Occurrence
See also
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Index of phonetics articles
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* Acoustic phonetics
* Active articulator
* Affricate
* Airstream mechanism
* Alexander John Ellis
* Alexander Melville Bell
* Alfred C. Gimson
* Allophone
* Alveolar approximant ()
* Alveolar click ()
* Alveolar consonant
* Alveolar ejecti ...
Notes
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Postalveolar consonants
Affricates
Pulmonic consonants
Voiced oral consonants
Central consonants