fricative
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- noun
- /ˈfrɪkətɪv/
- Specialized
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fricativa
- In phonetics, a fricative is a consonant sound like 'f' or 's' that is produced by forcing air through a narrow channel, creating friction.
- fricatives and affricates
- fricatives and nasals
- fricatives and liquids
Examples
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The stimuli were separated into the categories of plosives, fricatives, affricates, nasals, and semivowels.
Academic text (1991) -
Cantonese phonology includes only three fricatives, /f, s, h/, and is missing English /v, ?, z, ?/.
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By Time 4, however, accuracy for fricatives was greater than 70% for all children.
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Accuracy for fricatives was less than 70% at Time 1 and Time 2 for four children.
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For example, some children systematically replace fricatives in adult target words with stops.
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Another possibility for the divergence among fricatives in these studies is individual variation.
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Our ultimate goal is to expand the battery of methods available for describing fricatives in adults, children, and clinical populations.
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Several children in this investigation consistently produced fricatives with less than 70% accuracy, which lowered overall accuracy.
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Omission of word-final fricatives, however, is common in children's speech.
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Typically, the latest developing sounds for monolingual speakers are liquids and fricatives as well (McLeod, 2013).
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
A speech sound you make by forcing breath through a narrow gap, like s or f
A consonant sound made by pushing air through a small opening in the mouth, like f or s
Compounds
- Specialized
A speech sound you make by forcing breath through a narrow gap, like s or f
How Prolongable
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word fricative comes from the Latin root fric- meaning 'to rub', as in the familiar English word friction. So a fricative is a consonant made by 'rubbing' air through a narrow gap, like the 'f' in 'fine' or the 'th' in 'thin'.