Definition of Obstruents. Meaning of Obstruents. Synonyms of Obstruents

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Definition of Obstruents

Obstruent
Obstruent Ob"stru*ent, a. [L. obstruens, p. pr. of obstruere. See Obstruct.] Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering; as, an obstruent medicine. --Johnson.
Obstruent
Obstruent Ob"stru*ent, n. Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body; as, a medicine which acts as an obstruent.

Meaning of Obstruents from wikipedia

- obstruction and so resonate. All obstruents are consonants, but sonorants include vowels as well as consonants. Obstruents are subdivided into: plosives...
- alongside burg. Final-obstruents devoicing occurs in the varieties from Northern Germany. The German contrast between homorganic obstruents is more properly...
- letters for many voiceless and modally voiced pairs of consonants (the obstruents), such as [p b], [t d], [k ɡ], [q ɢ], [c ɟ], [f v], and [s z]. Also, there...
- may be added to the approximant. Nearly all languages with such lateral obstruents also have the approximant. However, there are a number of exceptions,...
- languages are sonorants, such as nasals and liquids. Very few have syllabic obstruents (i.e., stops, fricatives, and affricates) in normal words, but English...
- liquid consonants like [l] and [r]. This set of sounds contrasts with the obstruents (stops, affricates and fricatives). For some authors, only the term resonant...
- either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents. In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution...
- world. Final obstruent devoicing is the full devoicing of final obstruents that occurs for some AAVE speakers in Detroit where obstruents are devoiced...
- apico-alveolar stop [t̺]. It is voiceless and aspirated [t̺ʰ] before an obstruent or an open juncture (but is hardly audible between a nasalized vowel and...
- German. The lenis obstruents /b, d, ɡ, d͡ʒ, v, ð, ʝ, z, ʒ/ are fully voiced [b̬, d̬, ɡ̬, d̬͡ʒ̬, v̬, ð̬, ʝ̬, z̬, ʒ̬] after voiceless obstruents so abdanken 'to...