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Spirant
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Spirant 

one of a class of consonants also known as fricatives. Spirants are formed when a stream of air passes through the aperture created when articulatory organs are brought close to one another at various points in the vocal tract; they include labial and frontal spirants. In manner of articulation, spirants are opposed to other obstruents and to sonants.
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As seen in (40), the continuant allophones can be conditioned by a preceding stem: (40) Postvocalic spirantization of a prefix consonant can be conditioned by the preceding stem a.
Directional asymmetries in the morphology and phonology of words, ... by Hyman, Larry M. / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
Idsardi, "Tiberian Hebrew Spirantization and Phonological Derivations," Linguistic Inquiry 29.
Towards a typological presentation of Tiberian Hebrew by Anstey, Matthew P. / Hebrew Studies Journal
t [right arrow] s / i Finnish (Kiparsky 1973) spirantization b.
Towards a typology of stop assibilation * by Hall, T.A.; Hamann, Silke / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
 
 
 
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