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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
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A strident English nationalist but someone at home with modern German literature.
The Irish Times
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The government put it through under urgency, amid strident protest from National.
Radio NZ
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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
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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
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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
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She whispered abruptly, stopping on a spirant sound.
The last page
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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
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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
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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
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Go ahead, try that pharyngeal fricative yourself-butmaybe practice with some tongue twisters first.
Wired
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Luckily, dialect coach Erik Singer is here to help you distinguish a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative from a uvular plosive.
Wired
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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.
A Hundred Thousand Worlds
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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.
The Scar
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"Thiff is our cue to go." When he attempted a fricative, his busted lips blew a fine spray of blood.
The Fireman
Translations for fricative