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')
1Go ahead, try that pharyngeal fricative yourself-butmaybe practice with some tongue twisters first.
2Luckily, dialect coach Erik Singer is here to help you distinguish a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative from a uvular plosive.
3It creaks open on ancient hinges, its bottom edge scraping against the floor with the fricative sound of wood against wood.
4The analytical part of her linguist's brain began to collate, to catalog the distinctive staccato fricatives, but Carrianne forestalled her.
5"Thiff is our cue to go." When he attempted a fricative, his busted lips blew a fine spray of blood.
Translations for fricative