Entertainment / Literature / Fricative: (also called spirant) In linguistics, any sound made by tightening but not completely closing the air passage.
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Entertainment / Literature / Affricative: A sound stop with a fricative release. Affricatives involve a stop plus a movment through a fricative position (i.e., the blade of the tongue initially moves up in the position of a stop, but then mov MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Eth: (also spelled edh) A letter in the Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, and modern Icelandic alphabet. As a capital letter, it is written as a capital 'D' with a horizontal line across the left edge of the D, ofte MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Verners Law: In linguistics, a codicil or addition to Grimm's Law that helps explain some exceptions to Grimm's Law of the First Sound Shift. The law was proposed by Karl Verner in 1875, and it states that early G MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Manner Of Articulation: In linguistics, how the speech organs of lips, tongue, and vocal cords must be arranged in order to produce a particular sound such as a nasal, a stop, a fricative, or so on. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Family Rhyme: In ???‚¬?“family rhyme,' rhyming is based on phonetic similarities. For the sake of contrast, consider what most people consider 'normal' rhymes. In common perception, the rhyming syllables must MORE