Definition of Fricatives. Meaning of Fricatives. Synonyms of Fricatives

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Definition of Fricatives

Fricative
Fricative Fric"a*tive, a. [See Frication.] (Phon.) Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc. -- n. A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 197-206, etc.

Meaning of Fricatives from wikipedia

- "Spirant" is an older term for fricatives used by some American and European phoneticians and phonologists for non-sibilant fricatives. "Strident" could mean...
- The voiced alveolar fricatives are consonantal sounds. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents these sounds depends on whether...
- Convention in 1989 attempted to move glottal fricatives, both voiceless and voiced, to approximants. The fricative may be represented with the extIPA diacritic...
- (1995), p. 4. Merrill (2008), p. 108. Silke, Hamann (2004). "Retroflex fricatives in Slavic languages" (PDF). Journal of the International Phonetic ****ociation...
- compared to other fricatives. "Stridency" refers to the perceptual intensity of the sound of a sibilant consonant, or obstacle fricatives or affricates,...
- The voiceless alveolar fricatives are a type of fricative consonant pronounced with the tip or blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge (gum line)...
- tongue: Bilabial fricatives (articulated with both lips): Voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ] Voiced bilabial fricative [β] Labiodental fricatives (articulated...
- ambiguous, but no language is known to make a phonemic distinction between fricatives and approximants at this place of articulation. The IPA letter ⟨ʕ⟩ is...
- listed as post-velar may actually be trill fricatives. Index of phonetics articles Voiceless velar fricative Guttural Baker, Peter Stuar (2012). Introduction...
- canonically voiced fricatives but may be used for approximants. In many languages, such as English, [h] and [ɦ] are not actually glottal, fricatives, or approximants...