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consonant fricativa A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract.
Of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
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Go ahead, try that pharyngeal fricative yourself-butmaybe practice with some tongue twisters first.
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Luckily, dialect coach Erik Singer is here to help you distinguish a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative from a uvular plosive.
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It creaks open on ancient hinges, its bottom edge scraping against the floor with the fricative sound of wood against wood.
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The analytical part of her linguist's brain began to collate, to catalog the distinctive staccato fricatives, but Carrianne forestalled her.
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"Thiff is our cue to go." When he attempted a fricative, his busted lips blew a fine spray of blood.