0 a consonant sound that consists of a plosive and then a fricative made in the same place in the mouth:
Both of these analyses incorrectly predict that affricates and fricatives should undergo assimilation.
In both cases, the distinction between clusters and affricates was merged.
Voicing of affricates was also free to vary such that voiced and\or voiceless affricates were counted equivalently.
An additional co-occurrence trend between coronal fricatives and affricates and back vowels was unexpected.
Glottalized or labialized obstruents and lateral fricatives or affricates also turn up fairly commonly across the continent.
Fricatives, affricates, and liquids are relatively rare in babbling and early speech and have been subject to little systematic study.
Chi-square analyses were conducted on liquids and on fricatives and affricates for each infant.
What are the relative frequencies of fricatives and the frequency of occurrence of affricates and liquids across utterance position?
