obstruent
IPA: ʌbstruʌnt
noun
- (phonetics) A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.
- (medicine) Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.
adjective
- Causing obstruction; blocking up.
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Examples of "obstruent" in Sentences
- There are no voiced obstruent stops in the language.
- The obstruents are voiceless in the Southern varieties.
- The obstruent consonants are voiced to.between sonorants.
- For the moment, it can be taken as equivalent to a set of rules whose effect is to replace any segment that is classified as an obstruent by its unvoiced equivalent before the boundary symbol that marks the end of a word.