Top 10 similar words or synonyms for fricative_approximant

plosive_affricate    0.947655

nasal_approximant    0.947499

voiceless_voiced    0.943126

fricative_voiceless_voiced    0.936976

nasal_plosive    0.936087

fricative_nasal    0.934527

plosive_fricative    0.934184

stop_affricate_fricative    0.933940

stop_voiceless_voiced    0.927109

nasal_fricative    0.927034

Top 30 analogous words or synonyms for fricative_approximant

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Chicano English Chicano speakers may realize bilabially, as a stop or a fricative/approximant , with "very" being pronounced or .
Ingressive sound There are examples of ingressive sounds that belong to paralanguage. Japanese has what has been described an apicoprepalatal fricative approximant, similar to an inbreathed [s], which is used as a response to statements that are upsetting, or as a sign of deference. Japanese speakers also use an ingressive bilateral bidental friction used as a "pre-turn opening in conversation" or when beginning a prayer.
Approximant consonant When emphasized, approximants may be slightly fricated (that is, the airstream may become slightly turbulent), which is reminiscent of fricatives. For example, the Spanish word "ayuda" ('help') features a palatal approximant that is pronounced as a fricative in emphatic speech. Spanish can be analyzed as having a meaningful distinction between fricative, approximant, and intermediate . However, such frication is generally slight and intermittent, unlike the strong turbulence of fricative consonants.
Swedish phonology Patterns of diphthongs of long vowels occur in three major dialect groups. In Central Standard Swedish, the high vowels , , and can be phonetically a short vowel followed by the corresponding fricative (also described as approximant) , , , and or , , , and . The rounding of the fricative/approximant agrees with the rounding of the vowel, so that / is unrounded, / is protruded, more narrowly transcribed / , and both / and / are compressed, more narrowly transcribed / and / . , and are often realized as centering diphthongs , and .
International Phonetic Alphabet Pulmonic consonant letters are arranged singly or in pairs of voiceless (tenuis) and voiced sounds, with these then grouped in columns from front (labial) sounds on the left to back (glottal) sounds on the right. In official publications by the IPA, two columns are omitted to save space, with the letters listed among 'other symbols', and with the remaining consonants arranged in rows from full closure (occlusives: stops and nasals), to brief closure (vibrants: trills and taps), to partial closure (fricatives) and minimal closure (approximants), again with a row left out to save space. In the table below, a slightly different arrangement is made: All pulmonic consonants are included in the pulmonic-consonant table, and the vibrants and laterals are separated out so that the rows reflect the common lenition pathway of "stop → fricative → approximant," as well as the fact that several letters pull double duty as both fricative and approximant; affricates may be created by joining stops and fricatives from adjacent cells. Shaded cells are judged to be implausible.