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Unit 19: Affricates

Affricates blend a stop and a fricative into one quick sound.

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/tʃ/Sound /tʃ/6 mots/dʒ/Sound /dʒ/6 mots/tʃ/vs/dʒ/Pair /tʃ/ vs /dʒ/12 mots

Unit 19 — Affricates /tʃ/ and /dʒ/

An affricate is a single consonant that starts as a stop and releases as a fricative. The two English affricates share the same place of articulation but differ in voicing.

  • /tʃ/ — voiceless. Begins as a /t/-like stop, then releases into /ʃ/. Examples: chair, match, teacher.
  • /dʒ/ — voiced. Begins as a /d/-like stop, then releases into /ʒ/. Examples: jam, bridge, judge.

How to produce them:

  1. Place the tongue tip behind the upper teeth/gum ridge.
  2. Build up air pressure as if making /t/ or /d/.
  3. Release smoothly into the friction /ʃ/ or /ʒ/, with lips slightly rounded.
  4. Keep it one fused sound, not two separate steps.

Common spellings: ch (chair), tch (match), t+ure (nature) for /tʃ/; j (jam), g before e/i/y (gem, ginger), dg(e) (bridge), d+ure (graduate) for /dʒ/.

Pitfalls: Don't split into /t/+/ʃ/. Don't drop the final affricate in watch, page. Keep voicing steady through /dʒ/.