Sentence examples for fricative from inspiring English sources

I guess I'll have to make some language decisions myself.—* The "ch" in Scheveningen is, in linguistics speak, a voiceless uvular fricative.

The t has undergone "lenition" or weakening, going from a stop-consonant  (one that blocks the airflow) to a fricative (which merely slows it down).

It's pronounced somewhere between the throaty Parisian French "r" (a voiced uvular fricative) and the "ch" in Scottish English loch (a voiceless velar fricative).

As with several Dutch sounds, the voiceless uvular fricative is not found in most English dialects.

The uvular r's of French and the fricative, glottal ch's of German (and Scots) are essential to one's imagination of these languages and their speakers.

ba7ala2o el nas feehom we 2alo:  ayoh! bo99o el nas el 2asya elli mabter7amshi rakbeen kollohom 3ala el 7omar.(Both dialect transcriptions use common Arabic borrowings of numbers to represent Arabic sounds. 7 is an "h" pronounced at the back of the throat. 3 is a tricky, throaty consonant called the "voiced pharyngeal fricative".

Another way of using turbulence is to obstruct partially the air flow to produce a hiss of noise, as with the "fricatives" ("f", "s", sh").

Within the obstruent group however, were electrodes that responded primarily to plosives, others that responded to fricatives, and so on".The distinction between responding to features, not phonemes, becomes clear if you think about a neuron tuned to respond to voicing, which would fire whether the sound being heard was a "b", a "z" or a vowel.

Plosives and fricatives are both "obstruents" because they both involve obstruction, which distinguishes them from the other major class, the "sonorants", which involve uninterrupted air flow.

The affricates (which are consonant sounds like English ch, ts, begun as stops, with complete stoppage of the breath stream, and released as fricatives, with incomplete stoppage) have resulted historically from a succession of different processes of palatalization that have occurred in Slavic and are one of the most-characteristic features of Slavic phonology.

A distinctive characteristic of Old Saxon, shared with Old Frisian and Old English, is its preservation of the voiceless stops (p, t, k) common to all Germanic languages; in High German these stops were affricates (pf, tz, kh) or long fricatives (ff, ss, hh).