Fricative
Fricative noun - A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract.
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Synonyms for Fricative
Speech sound and fricative are semantically related In some cases you can replace phrase "Speech sound" with "Fricative", this terms are similar.
Speech sound
Speech sound noun - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language.
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Synonyms for Speech sound
Fricative and speech sound are semantically related in sound unit of speech topic. You can use "Fricative" instead a noun phrase "Speech sound".
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Related pairs
- consonant and fricative
- consonant and speech sound
- liquid and fricative
- liquid and speech sound
- click and fricative
- click and speech sound
- phone and fricative
- phone and speech sound
- affricate and fricative
- affricate and speech sound
- sibilant and fricative
- sibilant and speech sound
- spirant and fricative
- spirant and speech sound
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