debuccalize

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diːˈbʌ.kə.laɪz/

Verb

debuccalize (third-person singular simple present debuccalizes, present participle debuccalizing, simple past and past participle debuccalized)

  1. To undergo debuccalization.
    • 2002, Paul D. Fallon, The synchronic and diachronic phonology of ejectives, page 126:
      I should point out that the tendency for stops to debuccalize to glottal stop and fricatives to glottal fricative does not always hold.
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