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spirant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fricative, fricative consonant |
| Type of | continuant, continuant consonant |
| Has types | sibilant, sibilant consonant |
spirant::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | continuant, fricative, sibilant, strident |
Examples of spirant
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Two other terms are spirant and strident, but their usage is less standardized.
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Has someone got confused by the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law and somehow misplaced it by 900 years?
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These long vowels are shortened and then followed by a klusil, or plosive, or in some cases a spirant.
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The effect of the Germanic spirant law can also be very neatly observed by comparing certain verbs with related nouns.
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Another result of the spirant law, though far less obvious, was in the second-person singular past tense form of strong verbs.
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Two other examples of surface filters, which occurred in the history of the Germanic languages, are Sievers'law and the Germanic spirant law.
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In these verbs, therefore, the participle suffix came into direct contact with the preceding consonant, triggering the spirant law in these verbs.
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Another form of alternation was triggered by the Germanic spirant law, which continued to operate into the separate history of the individual daughter languages.
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- Fricative consonant: a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
- Fricative: 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. ...
- A fricative
- Spirants involve the same restriction of the speech canal as fricatives, but the speech organs are substantially less tense during the articulation of a spirant. Rather than friction, a resonant sound is produced at the place of articulation (as /th/ and /dh/ in 'thing' and 'then').
