With all the grace on offer, you quibble at the absence of the word "fricative"?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE AMBIENCE OF WORDS.] Reference
I never noticed that "fricative" sounded close to a bad word, though, until I said it to my dad and he acted shocked. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CLITICS.] Reference
Similarly, "fricative" consonants are soft-sounding like the "f" in "five" and convey a sense of smallness, he says, while. From Wordnik.com. [Dose.ca Music briefs] Reference
Two phonemes: a voiced dental fricative and a schwa. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Notes] Reference
Remember the sonority hierarchy: fricative approximant vowel. From Wordnik.com. [Concern trolls and the Etruscan bilabial 'f'] Reference
But a Spanish J is not the equivalent of a Y, it is a velar fricative. From Wordnik.com. [Gallstones of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing] Reference
In these instances, we have a bilabial fricative followed by a resonant. From Wordnik.com. [Defining valid Etruscan word-initial clusters] Reference
This is because the stop fails to be weakened to a fricative after another stop. From Wordnik.com. [How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage] Reference
Labials stops, Dental stops, Velar stops, Labio-velar stops and then... a uvular fricative?. From Wordnik.com. [The origin of the Indo-European uvular stop (traditionally the "plain, non-palatalized stop")] Reference
There are languages like French that lack a velar fricative but contain a uvular one instead. From Wordnik.com. [Markedness and the uvular proposal in PIE] Reference
In casual rapid speech, the /g/ sound is realized as a lenis g i.e. a voiced velar fricative gama. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan | Linguism] Reference
But I do use the German ch fricative for Bach, which makes me wonder why I don't use it for van Gogh. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ON NOT SPEAKING WELL.] Reference
The vowel effectively will 'disappear' in a murky cloud of dental fricative noise ie. sibilantization. From Wordnik.com. [Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops] Reference
Rather it's the "closedness" of the vowels that's provoked a fricative release of the original plosive. From Wordnik.com. [Concern trolls and the Etruscan bilabial 'f'] Reference
One of the Warluwarric languages has a velar fricative but no s - this is my all-time favourite system. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: NO FRICATIVES IN AUSTRALIA.] Reference
Dickens's social vision can at times seem like a waking nightmare, as with the fricative fever and fret of. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
Wouldn't a lateral affricate or just lateral fricative they sound the same to my inexperience ear make more sense?. From Wordnik.com. [A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus] Reference
Speaking about the voiced uvular fricative in Afghanistan, native speakers of English do have a sound similar to it. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan | Linguism] Reference
I know that until fairly recently I'd have been unable to produce a voiced velar fricative without extensive coaching. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ON NOT SPEAKING WELL.] Reference
The S is substituted there with an English H or the velar fricative that in Spanish is nowadays a J in many occasions. From Wordnik.com. [7 The Journey Back « Unknowing] Reference
Depending on the variety of Spanish, this can be a lateral, an approximant, a fricative or an affricate or even a plosive. From Wordnik.com. [Spanish spelling | Linguism] Reference
Castilian Spanish is one of the few European languages to include a voiceless dental fricative /θ/ in its phoneme inventory. From Wordnik.com. [Anglicizing Spanish (2) | Linguism] Reference
Of course it is not exactly like the voiced uvular fricative but it approximates it and it is acceptable as the nearest sound. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan | Linguism] Reference
Their conversation was a melange of both, an uncertain brew of slippery human vowels and fricative thranx clicks and whistles. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
Wouldn't it be odd, in a system to have Labials stops, Dental stops, Velar stops, Labio-velar stops and then... a uvular fricative?. From Wordnik.com. [The origin of the Indo-European uvular stop (traditionally the "plain, non-palatalized stop")] Reference
I'm torn between the uvular fricative and the full glottal stop. From Wordnik.com. [Knowledge is Power] Reference
An R with the "closed fricative" double line indicates the ZH sound in "pleasure". From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Phonetics, sound, as or, comprising a stop developing into a fricative. affrication, affusion. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
These include: Stopping: A fricative or affricative consonant is replaced by a stop consonant. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, but Mohombi isn't about furrowing brows, he's about fun with a capital bilabial fricative. From Wordnik.com. [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference
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