frication

Examples

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• In linguistics classes, we often analyze the frication produced by different speech sounds.

• You can hear the frication of the consonants during her speech when the air passes through a narrow passage.

• Along with coarticulatory patterns, such changes may relate to the development of frication noise.

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• The hoses bend, where the child produced hoseh? without word-final frication before closure for the following /b/ in bend.

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• We used the presence or absence of word-final frication to determine whether the segmental -s plural was realized for the CVs+z words.

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• Lastly, it may be that adolescent speakers do not direct the airflow toward the teeth as consistently as adults, leading to an inefficient frication source and, hence, a lower AmpDM-LMin value.

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• The second cue following the periodicity for the vowel was high-frequency aperiodic frication noise representing the vocal tract constriction for the sibilant phoneme /z/.

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• For the CVs/z+? z syllabic plural words, we used the presence or absence of both the schwa and word-final frication to determine whether the syllabic -es plural was realized.

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Synonyms

F

fricativeness

vsfrication

• Specialized

9.9

A hissing or buzzing sound when air passes through a narrow gap in the mouth

describes the actual act of producing that sound rather than the quality

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology