obstruent|obstruents in English

noun

obstruction; substance which obstructs passage in the body (Medicine); (Linguistics) sound made by blocking the passage of air through the mouth, occlusive (e.g. sound of the letters B and P)

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1. The Palatalization and Assibilation of Obstruents Daniel Recasens Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics

2. Affricates consonants consisting of plosive (obstruent) and fricative elements; for example, Russian ts and ch

3. Also, Catalan has final obstruent devoicing, thus featuring many couplets like amic ('male friend') vs. amiga ('female friend').

4. Assibilation is triggered by back high vowel u and t is the single target, while palatalization affects the entire coronal obstruents, conditioned by high vocoids i and j

5. The two Allomorphs are -n and -en: As (10-a,b) show, -n is the allomorph ordinarily chosen after sonorants, while -en is chosen after obstruents (10-c)

6. There were five series of coronal obstruents, with a three-way distinction between dental (or alveolar), retroflex and palatal among fricatives and affricates, and a two-way dental/retroflex distinction among stop consonants.

7. Hypernyms ("Continuant consonant" is a kind of): obstruent (a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth)

8. An Affricate is a type of obstruent consonant the occlusion of which, when it is pronounced, does not terminate with the explosion of the plosive organs of speech but with their incomplete closure, which causes the formation of a fricative.

9. An Affricate is a type of obstruent consonant the occlusion of which, when it is pronounced, does not terminate with the explosion of the plosive organs of speech but with their incomplete closure, which causes the formation of a fricative.

10. Hypernyms ("Continuant" is a kind of): obstruent (a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Continuant"):

11. "Before a pause, /N/ is a uvular ; it assimilates to the place of articulation of a following stop, affricate, or nasal". "/Q/ becomes a phonetic copy of a following obstruent". /s, z/, /t, d/, /n/, /h, b/, /p/, /m/, and /r/ could be palatalized.

12. We've mentioned in class that the English phoneme /l/ has a number of Allophones: the clear 'l' [l], which is a voiced lateral alveolar approximant, as in leap [lip] – this is the usual allophone of /l/ before the vowel nucleus in a syllable; voiceless as in play , the usual allophone of /l/ after a voiceless obstruent; and velarized 'dark l