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fricative consonant
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Noun1.fricative consonant - a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
fricative, spirant
continuant, continuant consonant - consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract
sibilant, sibilant consonant - a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
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Bammesberger 1988), which might explain the current pronunciation with the voiced fricative [z].
Karl Luick's Historische Grammatik and medieval English consonant ... by Welna, Jerzy / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
It begins with a voiced fricative and suggests speed and power (velocity, vroom).
Name games: Microsoft by any other name would sell as well by Malanowski, Jamie / Washington Monthly
In the north of the Russian language area, the closest phones to Finnic h are the velar voiced stop [g] and velar voiceless fricative [[chi]] along with their palatalized counterparts, as well as the velar voiced fricative [[gamma]] (allophones of /g/).
Variation in the adaptation of Finnic loanwords in Russian/[TEXT NOT ... by Samoilova, Natalia / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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