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Significados de fricative en inglés

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consonant fricativa

A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract.

        consonant fricativa

        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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              Examples for "strident"
              Examples for "strident"
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              Whether they can bring more strident members along is a different question.
              Reuters
              2
              A strident English nationalist but someone at home with modern German literature.
              The Irish Times
              3
              The government put it through under urgency, amid strident protest from National.
              Radio NZ
              4
              Today's papers were equally strident - and optimistic - in their support.
              The Guardian
              5
              Above the music he heard the childishly strident voice of the flapper:
              A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
              1
              The winds wailed sibilant and agonizing messages into the ears of Ootah:
              The Eternal Maiden
              2
              He heard the soft sibilant sound of a breath drawn quickly in.
              The Shadow of the East
              3
              He hardly waited for the sibilant assurance before putting back the receiver.
              Who Cares? A Story of Adolescence
              4
              There was a low, sibilant rise and fall-thebreathing of the creature.
              The Lost World
              5
              Mortals. The last word turned sibilant, breathed out over a long while.
              Walking dead
              1
              She whispered abruptly, stopping on a spirant sound.
              The last page
              2
              Thus F came to be the representative of the unvoiced labiodental spirant instead of that for the bilabial voiced spirant.
              The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
              3
              He thinks that the guttural element in x was a spirant, and therefore different from ch, which is an aspirate.
              The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
              4
              Orgos produced a pair of neatly rolled parchments and answered, with a Cherrati hand gesture, I am Alberro Spirant and this is my apprentice, Geoffrey.
              Act of will
              Uso de fricative en inglés
              1
              Go ahead, try that pharyngeal fricative yourself-butmaybe practice with some tongue twisters first.
              Wired
              2
              Luckily, dialect coach Erik Singer is here to help you distinguish a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative from a uvular plosive.
              Wired
              3
              It creaks open on ancient hinges, its bottom edge scraping against the floor with the fricative sound of wood against wood.
              A Hundred Thousand Worlds
              4
              The analytical part of her linguist's brain began to collate, to catalog the distinctive staccato fricatives, but Carrianne forestalled her.
              The Scar
              5
              "Thiff is our cue to go." When he attempted a fricative, his busted lips blew a fine spray of blood.
              The Fireman
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