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Voiced postalveolar affricate [d͡ʒ]
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The voiced postalveolar affricate [d͡ʒ] is a consonant phone.
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Features[edit | edit source]
The voiced postalveolar affricate has the following features:
- Its manner of articulation is an affricate, which means that the airflow is initially completely obstructed before being released as a fricative.
- Its place of articulation is postalveolar, which means that the sound is produced by the tongue making contact with the area just behind the alveolar ridge, but further back than for alveolar sounds.
- It’s a voiced consonant, which means that the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation of the sound.
Classification[edit | edit source]
It’s classified as a postalveolar affricate, and has a voiceless counterpart, the voiceless postalveolar affricate [t͡ʃ].
Representation[edit | edit source]
In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), it has the IPA symbol ⟨d͡ʒ⟩, and two IPA numbers 104 and 135. The ligature ⟨ʤ⟩ has the IPA number 214.
English[edit | edit source]
In English, this is the standard pronunciation of the Dge phoneme /d͡ʒ/, as in words like jump and judge.
