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Fricative: a noun in phonetics that denotes a consonant sound produced by forcing air through a narrow channel, creating friction and a hissing or buzzing sound
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Although you avoid fricatives and sibilants.
The fricatives and are sometimes voiced intervocalically.
The voiced alveolar fricatives are consonantal sounds.
Absence of contrast of voice for coda fricatives.
A particular subset of fricatives are the sibilants.
Between two vowels they become fricatives.
Initial fricatives in nouns never change.
These are by far the most common fricatives.
Flapped fricatives are theoretically possible but are not attested.
A few languages have ejective fricatives.
Initial affricates and fricatives become final plosives.
All aspirated stops become fricatives.
There are no fricatives except for and.
Lamé contrasts voiceless and voiced glottal fricatives.
Especially for fricatives and affricates.

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Has too many diphthongs and interdental fricatives.
The coronal fricatives show a shorter distance among themselves.
The letters represent either voiced fricatives or approximants.
All fricatives are voiceless as well.
A number of languages have syllabic fricatives or fricative vowels.
Voiced fricatives became voiceless.
It is also one of the few languages with ejective fricatives.
Voiced and voiceless fricatives are consistently not distinguished in the script.
Toda has an unusually large number of fricatives and trills.
Stops and fricatives may be voiced between vowels or after sonorant consonants.
Voiced aspirates become fricatives.
Loss of the fricatives was accompanied by some compensatory lengthening or diphthongization of preceding vowels.
There is especially improvement in pronouncing words containing sibilants or fricatives.
Phonemically nasalized fricatives are rare.
The fourth study focuses on the categorical perception of voiceless fricatives.
I know what fricatives are.
Approximants can be considered half way between vowels and fricatives.
The voiced stops probably became fricatives before the voiceless aspirates.
It is therefore necessary to supplement them by an algorithm for detecting these fricatives.
The resonants can also become voiceless fricatives as specified below.
The fricatives are all voiceless and the sonorants are all voiced.
And those are the fricatives.
The lack of fricatives in Australian languages.
Those sounds are called fricatives.
These voiced fricatives are also relatively rare in indigenous languages of the Americas.
Navajo lacks a clear distinction between phonetic fricatives and approximants.
Fricatives are truly and contrastively voiced in Northern Germany.
Voiceless lateral fricatives.
The whistled fricatives of Southern Bantu.
It is not a very common distinction and is typically applied only to fricatives and affricates.
Voiced and voiceless tapped alveolar fricatives have been reported from a few languages.
Yapese is one of the relatively few languages in the world with ejective fricatives.
The absence of central passage in alveolar fricatives has not been noticed in our data.
This may have contributed to the greater auditory identification of lisping in unvoiced alveolar fricatives.
Application of the present invention to such voiced fricatives is especially beneficial.

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