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RP’s consonant clusters /tj/ and /dj/ are increasingly replaced by /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ in SSB. This is more common in weak syllables, e.g. education, but is increasingly heard also in stressed syllables, e.g. Tuesday.
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Lindsey, G. (2019). Chapter 15 /tʃ/ and /dʒ/: A New si-chew-ation. In: English After RP. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04357-5_16
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