Voiced Palatal Fricative

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Voiced Palatal Fricative

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The voiced palatal fricative is a type of Consonant al sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (crossed-tail j), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is j\.

FEATURES

Features of the voiced palatal fricative:

Its Manner Of Articulation is Fricative , which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing Turbulence .

Its Place Of Articulation is Palatal which means it is articulated with the middle or back part of the Tongue raised against the Hard Palate .

Its Phonation type is voiced, which means the vocal cords are vibrating during the articulation.

It is an Oral Consonant , which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.

It is a Central Consonant , which means it is produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the middle of the tongue, rather than the sides.

The Airstream Mechanism is Pulmonic Egressive , which means it is articulated by pushing air out of the Lung s and through the vocal tract, rather than from the Glottis or the mouth.

Occurs in

Swedish , "soil, dirt"

Dutch : the ''zachte g'' in the southern pronunciation of g in Limburg, Flanders (instead of {Link without Title} )

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