fricative
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- adjective
- /ˈfrɪkətɪv/
- Specialized
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fricativa
- The stimuli were fricative-vowel sequences excised from real productions of English-acquiring children.
- voiceless fricative
- fricative duration
- fricative sounds
Examples
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Adults who reported more experience interacting with children modified their fricative durations more than those who reported less experience.
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The literature is somewhat conflicting on whether fricative frequencies show systematic differences between adolescents and adults.
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As such, it does not account for differences at fricative midpoint or end.
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The smallest differences were found for the fricative m1 measures.
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In the current data, about 10% of the productions had voicing persisting 30 ms or more into the fricative.
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The first set of analyses used an ANOVA to examine fricative productions.
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In general, the most variation among the L1s compared with English occurs within the fricative, affricate, and liquid manners of articulation.
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We plan to apply these measures to fricative misarticulations to evaluate their efficacy in differentiating typical and atypical productions.
Academic text (2013) -
Overall, the largest values—indicating the strongest differences between conditions—were found for the fricative duration measures.
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The sounds 's' and 'f' are examples of fricative speech sounds, as they are produced by forcing air through a narrow opening.
Synonyms
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A speech sound you make by forcing air through a narrow gap like s or f
Made by pushing air through a small opening in the mouth to make sounds like f or s
A sound made by forcing air through a narrow opening so the sound keeps going, for example s and f
Compounds
- Specialized
A speech sound you make by forcing breath through a narrow gap, like s or f
How Vowel-Like
Surface Forms
Morphology
fricative = friction (transparent) = fric + ative
The adjective is clearly formed from the notion of 'friction' with a standard adjectival suffix, so learners who know 'friction' can infer 'fricative'.
Etymology
The word fricative comes from the Latin root fric- meaning 'to rub', the same root you see in the English word friction. So a fricative sound is made by 'rubbing' air through a small gap, which is exactly how sounds like 's' or 'f' are produced.