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Fricative

noun
1.
A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract.  Synonyms: fricative consonant, spirant.
adjective
1.
Of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as 'f', 's', 'z', or 'th' in both 'thin' and 'then').  Synonyms: continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident.



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... palatalized to c in primitive Eng. initially before front vowels, also before Gmc. e and eu (Kluge, P.G.(2)I, 991). Kluge accepts gutturalizing of a palatal c before a consonant where this position is the result of syncopation of a palatal vowel. In the South palatal c became a fricative ch. According to Kluge it never developed to ch in Northern England and Scotland, but either remained c or recurred to a guttural k. The same is true with regard to g. The exact extent of such palatalization ...
— Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch • George Tobias Flom


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