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  2. Fricative - Wikipedia

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    A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. [1] These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of [f]; the back of the tongue against the soft palate in the case of German [x] (the final consonant of Bach); or the side of the tongue against the molars, in the case of Welsh [ɬ] (appearing twice in ...

  3. Category:Fricative consonants - Wikipedia

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    Voiceless labial–velar fricative; Voiceless labiodental fricative; Voiceless linguolabial fricative; Voiceless palatal fricative; Voiceless palatal lateral fricative; Voiceless pharyngeal fricative; Voiceless postalveolar fricative; Voiceless retroflex fricative; Voiceless retroflex lateral fricative; Voiceless uvular fricative; Voiceless ...

  4. List of consonants - Wikipedia

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    2.2 Fricative consonants. ... English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... This is a list of all the consonants which have a dedicated letter in the International ...

  5. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

  6. Voiceless alveolar fricative - Wikipedia

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    It occurs in Icelandic as well as an intervocalic and word-final allophone of English /t/ in dialects such as Hiberno-English and Scouse. The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [ɬ] sounds like a voiceless, strongly articulated version of English l (somewhat like what the English cluster **hl would sound like) and is written as ll in Welsh.

  7. Affricate - Wikipedia

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    An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal). It is often difficult to decide if a stop and fricative form a single phoneme or a consonant pair. [1] English has two affricate phonemes, /t͜ʃ/ and /d͜ʒ/, often spelled ch and j, respectively.

  8. SAMPA chart - Wikipedia

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    voiced dental fricative: English this, Icelandic fræði 'science' s: s: voiceless alveolar fricative: English see, Spanish sí ('yes') z: z: voiced alveolar fricative: English zoo, German sein 'to be' S: ʃ: voiceless postalveolar fricative: English she, French chou 'cabbage' Z: ʒ: voiced postalveolar fricative: French jour 'day', English ...

  9. Voiced dental and alveolar lateral fricatives - Wikipedia

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    The voiced alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced dental , alveolar , and postalveolar lateral fricatives is ɮ (sometimes referred to as lezh ), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K\ .