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Type of speech sound
In
phonetics , a continuant is a
speech sound
produced without a complete closure in the
oral cavity . By one definition, continuant is a
distinctive feature that refers to any sound produced with an incomplete closure of the vocal tract, thus encompassing all sounds (including
vowels ) except
stops ,
affricates and
nasals .
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By another definition, it refers exclusively to
consonantal sounds produced with an incomplete closure of the oral cavity, prototypically
approximants and
fricatives ,
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[7] but sometimes also
trills .
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Compare
sonorants (resonants), a class of speech sounds which includes vowels, approximants and
nasals (but not fricatives), and contrasts with
obstruents .
See also
References
^ "continuant" in Bussamann, Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics , 1996
^
Hayes, Bruce (2009).
Introductory Phonology . Blackwell. p.
78 .
ISBN
978-1-4051-8411-3 .
^ Chalker, Sylvia. (1998).
The Oxford dictionary of English grammar . Weiner, E. S. C., Oxford University Press. (1st rev. ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-172767-2 .
OCLC
49356718 .
^ "continuant" in Crystal, A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics , 6th ed, 2008
^ Matthews, P.H. (2014). The Concise Oxford English Dictionary of Linguistics (3 ed.) . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
9780191753060 .
^ "continuant" in Bussamann, Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics , 1996
^ Matthews, P.H. (2014). The Concise Oxford English Dictionary of Linguistics (3 ed.) . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
9780191753060 .
^ Anderson, Catherine; Bjorkman, Bronwyn; Denis, Derek; Doner, Julianne; Grant, Margaret; Sanders, Nathan; Taniguchi, Ai (2022-02-28),
"3.4 Describing consonants: Manner" , Essentials of Linguistics (2nd ed.), McMaster University, retrieved 2023-08-28
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