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.
- Two phonemes: a voiced dental fricative and a schwa.
- 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.
- But a Spanish J is not the equivalent of a Y, it is a velar 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.
- With all the grace on offer, you quibble at the absence of the word "fricative"?
- I never noticed that "fricative" sounded close to a bad word, though, until I said it to my dad and he acted shocked.
- The S is substituted there with an English H or the velar fricative that in Spanish is nowadays a J in many occasions.
- Similarly, "fricative" consonants are soft-sounding like the "f" in "five" and convey a sense of smallness, he says, while
- Yes, it's about a complete cessation of airflow with a sudden release -- a 'plosive' -- rather than a restriction causing 'fricative' turbulence.
- Now, considering the post you linked to regarding the potential phonetic realization of Minoan "d" and "z": would that man that "z" as a fricative is a "th" sound?
- It's safest for this magazine's sanity if I substitute the words "chuffing" and "todd" for the concomitant seven- and four-letter words Bruce quietly drops everywhere, through habit rather than guile or anger; fricative and plosive, they're actually right in almost all contexts.