between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other...
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The voiced labial–velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in certain spoken languages, including English. It is the sound denoted by the...
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The voiced palatal approximant is a type of consonant used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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The voiced alveolar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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The voiced velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (redirect from Voiceless dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral approximants)
pharynɡealized) alveolar lateral approximant, often called "dark L". Some scholars also posit the voiceless alveolar lateral approximant distinct from the fricative...
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The voiced labial–palatal (or labio-palatal) approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages, for example, french "huitiéme"...
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The voiced alveolar approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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The voiced retroflex approximant is a type of consonant used in some languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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The voiced palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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Voiced pharyngeal fricative (redirect from Pharyngeal approximant)
The voiced pharyngeal approximant or fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic...
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In mathematics, a Padé approximant is the "best" approximation of a function near a specific point by a rational function of given order. Under this technique...
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Lateral consonant (redirect from Lateral approximant)
possible places for laterals to be made. The most common laterals are approximants and belong to the class of liquids, but lateral fricatives and affricates...
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The voiced labiodental approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is something between an English /w/ and /v/, pronounced...
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Voiceless velar fricative (redirect from Voiceless velar approximant)
best transcribed as ⟨x̞⟩, ⟨ɣ̞̊⟩ or ⟨ɣ̊˕⟩ - see voiced velar approximant. The velar approximant can in many cases be considered the semivocalic equivalent...
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Voiceless labial–velar fricative (redirect from Voiceless labial-velar approximant)
Some linguists posit voiceless approximants distinct from voiceless fricatives. To them, English /ʍ/ is an approximant [w̥], a labialized glottal fricative...
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this encyclopedia. Nasal palatal approximant [j̃] Nasal labial–velar approximant [w̃] Voiceless nasal glottal approximant [h̃] Voiceless bilabially post-trilled...
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Voiced dental fricative (redirect from Dental approximant)
the dental approximant, a similar sound, which no language is known to contrast with a dental non-sibilant fricative, but the approximant is more clearly...
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Voiceless labiodental fricative (redirect from Voiceless labiodental approximant)
scholars also posit the voiceless labiodental approximant distinct from the fricative. The approximant may be represented in the IPA as ⟨ʋ̥⟩. Features...
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Voiced bilabial fricative (redirect from Bilabial approximant)
fricative and the bilabial approximant. The Mapos Buang language of New Guinea contains this contrast. Its bilabial approximant is analyzed as filling a...
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Labial approximant is the name of a class of consonants. Labio-velar approximant, a consonant sound written as ⟨w⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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The voiced retroflex lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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The voiced velar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used as a distinct consonant in a very small number of spoken languages in the world...
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When used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the voiced palatal approximant (the sound of "y" in "yes") it may be called yod or jod (pronounced /ˈjɒd/...
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Voiced uvular fricative (redirect from Uvular approximant)
called guttural R when found in European languages. The voiced uvular approximant is also found interchangeably with the fricative, and may also be transcribed...
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represent the voiced alveolar lateral approximant and a small cap ⟨ʟ⟩ to represent the voiced velar lateral approximant. The capital letter L is used as the...
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The voiced uvular lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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The nasal palatal approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some oral languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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List of consonants (section Approximant consonants)
bilabial fricative [β] bilabial approximant [β̞] bilabial trill [ʙ] bilabial percussive [ʬ] labiodental approximant [ʋ] labiodental nasal [ɱ] (symphony)...
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Voiceless glottal fricative (redirect from Voiceless glottal approximant)
sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically, but often lacks the usual phonetic characteristics...
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