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fricative - use in sentences
Converse of object
- voice: In vowels and voiced fricatives, voicing obscures the aspiration and frication components.
Adjective modifier
- velar: The use of the velar fricative is dying out all over the place.
- voiceless: The word begins with a rather weak voiceless fricative made with the lips ( bilabial ).
- unvoiced: In the first experiment, two vowels were compared with one voiced and one unvoiced fricative.
- dental: Specifically, it analyzes the production and perception of two English phonemes: the voiced labiodental fricative and the voiced dental fricative.
- alveolar: There are other tricky final clusters ending in alveolar fricatives or plosives.
Modifies a noun
- consonant: The articulators have sustained states ( such as vowel shapes, nasal and fricative consonants ); and percussive states.
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