slit fricative

slit fricative

noun Phonetics.
a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.


Origin:
1950–55
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Slit fricative is always a great word to know.
So is fricative. Does it mean:
a speech sound characterized by audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a constricted passage in the vocal tract
back-vowel resonance in the 'l' sound when situated after a vowel in the same syllable
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