In British
Received Pronunciation, after syllable-initial (as in
Tuesday) is realized as a devoiced palatal fricative. The amount of devoicing is variable, but the fully voiceless variant tends to be alveolo-palatal in the sequence: . It is a fricative, rather than a fricative element of an
affricate because the preceding plosive remains alveolar, rather than becoming alveolo-palatal, as in
Dutch. The corresponding affricate can be written with or in narrow IPA, though is normally used in both cases. In the case of English, the sequence can be specified as as is normally
apical (although somewhat palatalized in that sequence), whereas alveolo-palatal consonants are
laminal by definition. An increasing number of British speakers merge this sequence with the
voiceless palato-alveolar affricate : (see
yod-coalescence), mirroring
Cockney,
Australian English and
New Zealand English. On the other hand, there is an opposite tendency in
Canadian accents that have preserved , where the sequence tends to merge with the plain instead: (see
yod-dropping), mirroring
General American which does not allow to follow alveolar consonants in stressed syllables. ==Occurrence==