Associations to the word «Fricative»
Noun
- English
- Variation
- Shift
- Transition
- Noise
- Grimm
- Example
- Variety
- Exception
- Feature
- Tendency
- Reconstruction
- Instance
- Ph
- Loch
- Alternate
- Nd
- Cate
- Welsh
- Southern
- Merging
- Contour
- Turkic
- Mandarin
- Omission
- Modelling
- Yiddish
- Mb
- Ci
- Amplitude
- Closure
- Tal
- Prefix
- Insertion
- Morphology
- Arabic
- Portuguese
- Pronoun
- Suffix
- Spanish
- Gamma
- Ordering
- Cavity
- Vietnamese
- Merger
- Lack
Adjective
Wiktionary
FRICATIVE, noun. (phonetics) Any of several sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant. English /f/ and /s/ are fricatives.
FRICATIVE, adjective. (phonetics) produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.
Dictionary definition
FRICATIVE, noun. A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract.
FRICATIVE, adjective. Of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then').
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