Topic-057: Affricates An affricate sound is a type of consonant which is made of a plosive followed by a fricative with the same place of articulation (so, it is a mixture of two steps or gestures. For example, t (the voiceless affricate) hast and / ʃ/ as a sound at the beginning and end of the English words church /tʃɜ:tʃ/. Remember that although it is very strange to call the combination of a plosive and a fricative a single sound (an affricate) (as it has been deliberated for quite sometime) yet experts argue that an affricate is a single segment and accordingly it should be treated as a single unit. There are two affricates in English t and d (the first of these is voiceless, the second voiced) sounds as at the beginning and end of the English words church and judge. Both of them are post alveolar sounds by their place of articulation.
