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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