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Voiceless postalveolar affricate [t͡ʃ]
The voiceless postalveolar affricate [t͡ʃ] is a consonant phone.
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Features[edit | edit source]
The voiceless 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 voiceless consonant, which means that the vocal cords do not vibrate during the articulation of the sound.
Classification[edit | edit source]
It’s classified as a postalveolar affricate, and has a voiced counterpart, the voiced postalveolar affricate [d͡ʒ].
Representation[edit | edit source]
In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), it has the IPA symbol ⟨t͡ʃ⟩. Older sources may use the ligature ⟨ʧ⟩ called tesh. Because it consists of two phones, it has two IPA numbers; 103 and 134. The ligature had the IPA number 213.
English[edit | edit source]
In English, this is the standard pronunciation of the CH phoneme /ʧ/, as in words like chop and watch.
