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A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. | A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. | ||
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When a language distinguishes [[Aspiration|aspirated]] and unaspirated plosives, either series might become a fricative (the former occured in Greek, the later in Germanic). | When a language distinguishes [[Aspiration|aspirated]] and unaspirated plosives, either series might become a fricative (the former occured in Greek, the later in Germanic). | ||
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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 * * |
