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Significados de spirant em inglês

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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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              Uso de spirant em inglês
              1
              She whispered abruptly, stopping on a spirant sound.
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              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.
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              Translations for spirant
              Spirant ao longo do tempo