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1° What is a fricative characterized by?
Fricatives are consonants with the characteristic that air escapes through a narrow passage and makes a hissing sound

2|why are fricative described ascontinuat sound?
Fricatives are continuant consonants, which means that you can continue making them without interruption as long as you have enough air in your lungs

3 why are fricative described ascomplex?
Affricates are rather complex consonants. They begin as plosives and end as fricatives. A familiar example is the affricate heard at the beginning and end of the word church'. It beginswith an articulation practically the same asthat for t, but instead of a rapid release with plosion and aspiration as we would find in the word 'tip', the tonguemoves to the position for the fricative4 what are homorganic sound?
It is usually said that the plosive and the following fricative must be made with the same articulators - the plosive and fricative must be . E.g t, d and being madewith the tongue blade against the alveolar ridge, are homorganic, but he sounds k, f are not homorganic

5 how many fricatives are there in English and how can you group them?
PLACE OF ARTICULATIONLabiodental dental alveolar post alveolar glottal
Fortis( voiceless) f * s * h
Lenis (voiced) v * z *

6 how are fricative similar to plosives?
each place of articulation has a pair of phonemes,one fortis and one lenis,this is similar to what was seen with the plosives

7 how are the following fricatives produced?
Labiodental: the lower lip is in contact with the upper teeth .the fricativenoise is never very strong and is scarcely audible in the case of v. Example words: 'thumb', 'thus'; 'ether', 'father'; 'breath', 'breathe

Dental :fricatives are sometimes described as if thetongue were placed between the front teeth, and it is common for teachers to make their students do this when they are trying to teach them to make this sound. In fact,however, the tongue is normally...