Fricative (definition)

From Scottish Gaelic Grammar Wiki
Revision as of 11:18, 31 October 2020 by Kmccullough (talk | contribs)

Jump to: navigation, search

A fricative is a sound produced with a narrow opening in the vocal tract that allows air to pass while causing frication.

  • fricative sounds in English are [f, v, s, z, ʒ, ʃ, θ, ð].
  • fricative sounds in Gaelic are >[f, v, s, ʃ, ç, ʝ, x, ɣ].

See Also

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

References

  • Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Ladefoged, D. (2010) A Course in Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wadsworth Publishing.