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fricative::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fricative consonant, spirant |
| Type of | continuant, continuant consonant |
| Has types | sibilant, sibilant consonant |
fricative::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident |
Examples of fricative
fricative
In some languages, it has the constricted manner of articulation of a fricative.
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It is still used to mark fricative consonants in the YIVO orthography of Yiddish.
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It does not represent the consonant in the, which is the voiced dental fricative.
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The glottal fricative is often voiced between vowels, making it barely noticeable.
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The IPA symbol is a voiced bilabial fricative which doesn't exist in English.
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The nasal vowels do not occur except before a fricative and in word-final position.
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If fricative, the sound is often impressionistically described as harsh or grating.
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Complete assimilation can also occur when an occlusive precedes a fricative.
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It has 20 uvular and 29 pure fricative phonemes, more than any other known language.
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- Fricative consonant: a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
- Of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
- Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. ...
- Any of several sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant. English /f/ and /s/ are fricatives; produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity
- (fricatives) phonics definition - consonant sounds that are made by the sound of air friction in the mouth:
- If during the production of a phone, air is made to pass through a narrow passage, a 'friction' sound or fricative is produced (i.e. a more-or-less 'hissing' sound). English examples are the 'f sound' in fee or the 'sh sound' in she.
- (also called spirant): In linguistics, any sound made by tightening but not completely closing the air passage.
- Said of consonant sounds that are produced with an airstream that is partially closed in some point of the oral tract, in such a way that audible friction is produced. Examples of unvoiced fricatives are /f s h/ in English.
- A class of consonants produced by the organs of speech coming into close proximity, so that there is an acoustic impression of friction produced in their articulation.
