- Voiced epiglottal fricative
The voiced epiglottal approximant/fricative is a type of
consonant al sound, used in some spokenlanguage s. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is IPA|ʢ, and the equivalentX-SAMPA symbol is <.Although traditionally placed in the fricative row of the IPA chart, IPA| [ʢ] is usually an approximant. The IPA symbol itself is ambiguous, but no language has a distinct fricative and approximant at this place of articulation. Sometimes the lowering diacritic is used to specify that the manner is approximant: IPA| [ʢ̞] .
Features
Features of the voiced epiglottal approximant/fricative:
* Its
manner of articulation is approximant, or occasionally fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a channel at the place of articulation that is not usually narrow enough to causeturbulence .
* Itsplace of articulation is epiglottal which means it is articulated with thearyepiglottic folds against theepiglottis .
* Itsphonation type is voiced, which means the vocal cords are vibrating during the articulation.
* It is anoral consonant , which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.
* Because it is pronounced in the throat, without a component in the mouth, the central/lateral dichotomy does not apply.
* Theairstream mechanism ispulmonic egressive , which means it is articulated by pushing air out of thelung s and through the vocal tract, rather than from theglottis or the mouth.Occurrence
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Bibliography
*Harvard reference
last=Ladefoged
first=Peter
authorlink=Peter Ladefoged
last2=Maddieson
first2=Ian
authorlink2=Ian Maddieson
year=1996
title=The Sounds of the World's Languages
location=Oxford
publisher=Blackwell
ISBN=0-631-19815-6
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