fricative
IPA: frˈɪkʌtɪv
noun
- (phonetics) 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.
adjective
- (phonetics) produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.
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Examples of "fricative" in Sentences
- Not to be confused with fricative.
- It is an unvoiced velar fricative.
- The rest of the foreign fricatives are not.
- See Voiceless dental fricative and Voiced dental fricative.
- It represents the voiced dental fricative voiced dental fricative .
- Locally, the alveolar fricative is replaced by the glottal fricative.
- Dental fricative or interdental fricative non sibilant coronal fricative.
- In the sonority hierarchy, all sounds higher than fricatives are sonorants.
- For example, Basque has a laminal fricative and an apicoalveolar fricative.
- So it is voiceless laminal sibilant retroflex fricative in standard Russian.
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