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fricatives

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fricatives.

Editorial note

The oscillator includes the vocal chords as well as a model of the lips for fricatives, plosives, etc.

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Quick take

(phonetics) Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fricatives gathered in one view.

noun

(phonetics) Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fricatives.

noun

(phonetics) Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.

Example sentences

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The oscillator includes the vocal chords as well as a model of the lips for fricatives, plosives, etc.

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Use a pop filter to get the plosives under control and a multiband compressor for the fricatives.

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It also looks like Sanskrit doesn't have any uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal consonants, and no velar or post-velar fricatives.

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In the case of the interdental fricatives, the writing system does not even contemplate a distinction.

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Is this not reducible to whether a speech sound contains fricatives and stops or not?

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There are a few other languages with dental fricatives, including Arabic, Danish and Greek.

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How am I supposed to designate voiced bilabial fricatives and ask for Bitcoin donations on the same page?

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English - many accents, at least - retain the dental fricatives (th-sounds) that were shifted to alveolar stops (d and t sounds) in High German.

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It counts 33 consonants, including affricates and fricatives, and 12 vowels.

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Dental fricatives are relatively rare sounds among the world's languages.

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Other rare English phonemes include the dental fricatives, i.e.

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The last part is so obviously wrong as to be silly, off the top of my head voiced lateral fricatives are used in some of my home languages that would not be possible to explain in simple latin alphabet terms.

Quote examples

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Also other West Germanic (and North) languages lost the dental fricatives ("thorn" (þ) and "eth" (ð)) while English (and Icelandic) kept it.

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A title like this screams: "Pick my example video apart." And the first thing I noticed was the vocals on this was horrible - poppy plosives and screaming fricatives.

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I got one German “w” when using the following prompt, but most of the “w” were still pronounced as liquids rather than labial fricatives.

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There are also other articulatory artifacts in speech such as the onsets of speech energy corresponding to plosives ("puh", "buh"), and the high frequencies generated by fricatives like "sss".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use fricatives in a sentence?

The oscillator includes the vocal chords as well as a model of the lips for fricatives, plosives, etc.

What does fricatives mean?

(phonetics) Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.

What part of speech is fricatives?

fricatives is commonly used as noun.