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Fricatives (or
spirants) are
consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two
Place of articulation close together. These are the lower lip against the upper teeth in the case of , or the back of the tongue against the
soft palate in the case of German , the final consonant of
Bach. This turbulent airflow is called
frication. A particular subset of fricatives are the
sibilants (sometimes referred to as
stridents). When forming a sibilant, one still is forcing air through a narrow channel, but in addition the tongue is curled lengthwise to direct the air over the edge of the teeth. English , , , and are examples of this.
Sibilant fricatives
All sibilants are coronal consonant, but may be dental consonant,
alveolar consonant, postalveolar consonant, or
palatal consonant (retroflex consonant) within that range. However, at the postalveolar place of articulation the tongue may take several shapes: domed,
laminal consonant, or
apical consonant, and each of these is given a separate symbol and a separate name. Prototypical retroflexes are sub-apical consonant and palatal, but they are usually written with the same symbol as the apical postalveolars. The alveolars and dentals may also be either apical or laminal, but this difference is indicated with diacritics rather than with separate symbols.
Central non-sibilant fricatives
Lateral fricatives
- voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
- voiced alveolar lateral fricative
- voiceless retroflex lateral fricative
- voiceless palatal lateral fricative (needs a raising diacritic: )
- voiceless velar lateral fricative
Symbols used for both fricatives and approximants
No language distinguishes voiced fricatives from approximants at these places, so the same symbol is used for both. For the pharyngeals and epiglottals, approximants are more numerous than fricatives. A fricative realization may be specified by adding the raised (phonetics) to the letters, . Likewise, the
lowered (phonetics) may be added to specify an approximant realization, .
Pseudo-fricatives
The glottal "fricatives" are actually unaccompanied
phonation states of the glottis, without any accompanying manner, fricative or otherwise. However, they are called fricatives for historical reasons.
In addition, is usually called a "voiceless labial-velar fricative", but it is actually an approximant. True doubly-articulated fricatives may not occur in any language; but see
voiceless palatal-velar fricative for a putative (and rather controversial) example.
Languages
See table of consonants for a table of fricatives in English.
Ubykh language may be the language with the most fricatives (twenty-seven in all), some of which do not have symbols or diacritics in the IPA. This number actually outstrips the number of all consonants in English (which has 24 consonants). By contrast, some languages have no phonemic fricatives at all. This is a typical feature of Australian Aboriginal languages, where the few fricatives that exist result from changes to plosives or
approximants, but also occurs in some indigenous languages of
Papuan languages and South America that have especially small numbers of consonants. However, whereas is
entirely unknown in indigenous Australian languages, most of the other languages without true fricatives do have in their consonant inventory.
Voicing contrasts in fricatives are largely confined to Europe, Africa and Western Asia. Languages of South and East Asia, such as the Dravidian languages and Austronesian languages, typically do not have such voiced fricatives as and which are very familiar to European speakers. These voiced fricatives are also relatively rare in indigenous languages of the Americas. Overall, voicing contrasts in fricatives are much rarer than in plosives, being found only in about a third of the world's languages as compared to 60 percent for plosive voicing contrasts.Maddieson, Ian. "Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives", in Martin Haspelmath et al. (eds.)
The World Atlas of Language Structures, pp. 26–29. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-925591-1.
About 15 percent of the world's languages, however, have
unpaired voiced fricatives ie. a voiced fricative without a voiceless counterpart. Two-thirds of these, or 10 percent of all languages, have unpaired voiced fricatives but no voicing contrast between any fricative pair.Maddieson, Ian.
Patterns of Sounds. Cambridge University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-521-26536-3.
This phenomenon occurs because voiced fricatives have developed from lenition of plosives or fortition of approximants. This phenomenon of unpaired voiced fricatives is scattered throughout the world, but is confined to nonsibilant fricatives with the exception of a couple of languages which have but lack (it is worth noting that several languages have the postalveolar affricate but lack ). The fricatives which occur most often without a voiceless counterpart are, in order of ratio of unpaired occurrences to total occurrences, , , , and .
References
See also
Fricatives (or
spirants) are
consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two Place of articulation close together. These are the lower lip against the upper teeth in the case of , or the back of the tongue against the soft palate in the case of German , the final consonant of
Bach. This turbulent airflow is called
frication. A particular subset of fricatives are the
sibilants (sometimes referred to as
stridents). When forming a sibilant, one still is forcing air through a narrow channel, but in addition the tongue is curled lengthwise to direct the air over the edge of the teeth. English , , , and are examples of this.
Sibilant fricatives
All
sibilants are
coronal consonant, but may be dental consonant, alveolar consonant,
postalveolar consonant, or
palatal consonant (retroflex consonant) within that range. However, at the postalveolar place of articulation the tongue may take several shapes: domed, laminal consonant, or apical consonant, and each of these is given a separate symbol and a separate name. Prototypical retroflexes are sub-apical consonant and palatal, but they are usually written with the same symbol as the apical postalveolars. The alveolars and dentals may also be either apical or laminal, but this difference is indicated with diacritics rather than with separate symbols.
Central non-sibilant fricatives
Lateral fricatives
Symbols used for both fricatives and approximants
No language distinguishes voiced fricatives from
approximants at these places, so the same symbol is used for both. For the pharyngeals and epiglottals, approximants are more numerous than fricatives. A fricative realization may be specified by adding the
raised (phonetics) to the letters, . Likewise, the
lowered (phonetics) may be added to specify an approximant realization, .
Pseudo-fricatives
The glottal "fricatives" are actually unaccompanied
phonation states of the glottis, without any accompanying manner, fricative or otherwise. However, they are called fricatives for historical reasons.
In addition, is usually called a "
voiceless labial-velar fricative", but it is actually an approximant. True doubly-articulated fricatives may not occur in any language; but see voiceless palatal-velar fricative for a putative (and rather controversial) example.
Languages
See table of consonants for a table of fricatives in English.
Ubykh language may be the language with the most fricatives (twenty-seven in all), some of which do not have symbols or diacritics in the IPA. This number actually outstrips the number of all consonants in English (which has 24 consonants). By contrast, some languages have no phonemic fricatives at all. This is a typical feature of
Australian Aboriginal languages, where the few fricatives that exist result from changes to plosives or approximants, but also occurs in some indigenous languages of Papuan languages and South America that have especially small numbers of consonants. However, whereas is
entirely unknown in indigenous Australian languages, most of the other languages without true fricatives do have in their consonant inventory.
Voicing contrasts in fricatives are largely confined to Europe, Africa and Western Asia. Languages of South and East Asia, such as the Dravidian languages and Austronesian languages, typically do not have such voiced fricatives as and which are very familiar to European speakers. These voiced fricatives are also relatively rare in indigenous languages of the Americas. Overall, voicing contrasts in fricatives are much rarer than in plosives, being found only in about a third of the world's languages as compared to 60 percent for plosive voicing contrasts.Maddieson, Ian. "Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives", in Martin Haspelmath et al. (eds.)
The World Atlas of Language Structures, pp. 26–29. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-925591-1.
About 15 percent of the world's languages, however, have
unpaired voiced fricatives ie. a voiced fricative without a voiceless counterpart. Two-thirds of these, or 10 percent of all languages, have unpaired voiced fricatives but no voicing contrast between any fricative pair.Maddieson, Ian.
Patterns of Sounds. Cambridge University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-521-26536-3.
This phenomenon occurs because voiced fricatives have developed from
lenition of plosives or
fortition of approximants. This phenomenon of unpaired voiced fricatives is scattered throughout the world, but is confined to nonsibilant fricatives with the exception of a couple of languages which have but lack (it is worth noting that several languages have the postalveolar affricate but lack ). The fricatives which occur most often without a voiceless counterpart are, in order of ratio of unpaired occurrences to total occurrences, , , , and .
References
See also
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