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Dental fricative

Consonantal sound


Summary

Consonantal sound

The dental fricative or interdental fricative is a fricative consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue pressing under the teeth. There are several types (those used in English being written as th):

  • Voiced dental fricative - as in the English this, .
  • Voiceless dental fricative - as in the English thin, .
  • Dental ejective fricative

References

References

  1. Zhao, Sherry Y.. (18 October 2010). "Stop-like modification of the dental fricative /ð/: An acoustic analysis". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
  2. "The English "th"".
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