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fricative: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (944 words) |
 | Fricatives (or spirants) are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. |
| These are the lower lip against the upper teeth in the case of [f], or the back of the tongue against the soft palate in the case of German [x], the final consonant of Bach. |
| The glottal "fricatives" are actually unaccompanied phonation states of the glottis, without any accompanying manner, fricative or otherwise. |
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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Voiceless labiodental fricative (3320 words) |
| Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence. |
| The voiceless labiodental fricative occurs in English, and it is generally spelled with the letter F except in words borrowed from Greek. |
| The voiceless palatal-velar fricative (also voiceless dorso-palatal velar fricative, voiceless postalveolar and velar fricative, voiceless coarticulated velar and palatoalveolar fricative) is a term used for a range of similar sounds used in most dialects of Swedish to realize the phoneme. |
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