Voiced postalveolar affricate
| IPA – text | dʒ |
| IPA – image | Missing image IPA_voiced_postalveolar_affricate.png Image:IPA voiced postalveolar affricate.png |
| entity | dʒ |
| X-SAMPA | dZ |
| Kirshenbaum | dZ |
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The voiced palato-alveolar fricative or domed postalveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is [dʒ], and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is [dZ].
Features
Features of the voiceless 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 postalveolar, which means it is articulated with the tip of the tongue bunched up ("domed") between the alveolar ridge and 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 lungs and through the vocal tract, rather than from the glottis or the mouth.
In English
The voiceless postalveolar affricate occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the letter 'g' in giraffe and the letter 'j' in jump.
See also