Fricative

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A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

Sound Changes

To

Fricatives usually develop from plosives under the following conditions:

• / #_C in Avestan
• / _# in Gothic
• / V_V in Irish

When a language distinguishes aspirated and unaspirated plosives, either series might become a fricative (the former occured in Greek, the later in Germanic).

This article is part of a series on Phonetics and Phonology. Affricate * Allophone * Aspiration * Bilabial consonant * Buccal * Coronal consonant * Dental consonant * Fricative * Heng * Manner of articulation * Obligatory Contour Principle * Palatalization-split * Phoneme * Phoneme hole * Phonological feature * Rhotacism * Spirant * Stop * Syllable structure * Velar consonant * * Phonetic alphabets * Phonetic Segments