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Entertainment / Literature / Fricative: (also called spirant) In linguistics, any sound made by tightening but not completely closing the air passage. MORE
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