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
- For instance, in the prehistory of Modern Persian, apocope introduced word-final clusters of obstruent or nasal + r.
- This led to terminal obstruent devoicing spreading to the rest of the continuum, and I suspect that þd may also have originated with the Franconian node though this is little more than speculation.
- If I'm correct about terminal obstruent devoicing continuing in the region, then they never did speak Old High German as we usually think of it note that terminal obstruent devoicing is one of the criteria for distinguishing MHG from OHG.
- My transcription is the standard followed by both Szczurowski 1954 and Patkanyi 1963, in which g is understood as a voiced obstruent of unknown/indeterminate value and many perhaps most scholars interpretet it as dental [d] or even interdental fricative [D]!
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