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How to pronounce “fricative”
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- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of fricative with real speech in context.
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So we have fricatives.
- Definition summary
- (phonetics) Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.
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So we have fricatives.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (phonetics) Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.
- [Adjective]
- (phonetics) produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.
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