1. fricative - Noun
2. fricative - Adjective
3. fricative - Adjective Satellite
Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc.
A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-206, etc.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAbout 15 percent of the world's languages, however, have unpaired voiced fricatives, i.e. a voiced fricative without a voiceless counterpart. Source: Internet
A final fricative tends to leave a preceding vowel with a low or falling tone. Source: Internet
Affricates often behave as if they were intermediate between stops and fricatives, but phonetically they are sequences of a stop and fricative. Source: Internet
As a result, words in modern Vietnamese with voiced fricatives occur in all six tones, and the tonal register reflects the voicing of the minor-syllable prefix and not the voicing of the main-syllable stop in Proto-Viet–Muong that produced the fricative. Source: Internet
A doubled aspirated affricate has a longer hold in the stop portion and then has a release consisting of the fricative and aspiration. Source: Internet
For example, the Spanish word ayuda ('help') features a palatal approximant that is pronounced as a fricative in emphatic speech. Source: Internet