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fricative

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fricative
[frik′ətiv]
a consonant speech sound such as an /f/ or /s/, made by forcing an airstream through a constricted opening.
fricative (frik´tiv),
n a speech sound made by forcing the airstream through such a narrow opening that audible high-frequency air currents or vibrations are set up.
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The four words were "saw," "say," "sass" and "sane," chosen because their vowel, dipthong and fricative -- the hiss of the "s" -- require a very precise jaw position to be pronounced intelligibly.
Breakthrough in understanding of speech offers hope to the deaf by AFP / AFP Global Edition
At the same time it should be mentioned that Laszlo Honti has recently considered it as possible to suppose, in case of congruity of the Finno-Permic *s ~ the Ob-Ugric and Samoyedic *t, the descent of both of those sounds from an earlier common source--an original voiceless dental fricative [?
On the 3rd person verbal mark er *-sV and the definite conjugation in ... by Kunnap, Ago / Linguistica Uralica
L'alliterazione consonantica delle fricative ne e il segnale piu vistoso (la labiodentale sonora v e la sibilante sorda s intessono l'intero testo), ma ad eliminare l'attrito nel fluire del vento collabora anche la caduta delle vocali finali.
Incorporeita e sacro nella poesia neodialettale: Franco Loi, il vento ... by Medona, Letizia / Italica
 
 
 
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