The addition of a tone from the Larynx (+Voicing) to the noise of a consonant provides a third distinctive feature.

• The "CH" sound starts out as the plosive "T" and ends up as the fricative "SH."
  
  

  Sometimes when a child has a lateral lisp for the "SH" sound (i.e., it sounds more like "SHL"), he/she will nevertheless make the "CH" sound correctly. When this happens, the "SH" part of this affricate can be use to teach the child to make the "SH" sound correctly.
  
  

  The other example of an affricate is the first (and last) sound in the word "judge."

• This starts out as the plosive "D" and ends up as the fricative "Zsh" as in the word "vision."
  
  
• Voicing: Sometimes both the point of constriction for two or more phonemes and the manner are the same! What differs is whether or not a larngeal tone accompanies the air turbulence. The only difference between "P" and "B," for example, is that the latter includes a tone from the larynx. These pairs of sounds are called cognates.

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