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Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough, nor with enough articulatory precision, to create turbulent airflow. Therefore, approximants fall between fricatives, which have a degree of constriction tight enough to produce a turbulent airstream, and vowels, which have no constriction. This…

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Semivowels

Contrast with fricatives

Rhotics

Nasals

Types

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Approximant

Nodes127
Edges126
Triples83
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015748
Components1

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Approximant

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related to Rhotics · 15
Approximant → Cyrillic, Dutch, English, Furthermore, Greek, In, Instead, IPA, Latin, No, Nonetheless, Similarly, Studies, The, These
related to Semivowels · 13
Approximant → Although, English, French, Indo-European, Italian, Montreuil, Semivowels, Similarly, Some, Spanish, The, This, Vowels
related to Taps and trills · 11
Approximant → As, Elvira-García, However, In Spanish, It, Martínez-Celdrán, Romance, Romera Barrios, Spanish, Such, Thus
related to Table · 9
Approximant → For, Generally, However, IPA, Labialization, Regarding, The, These, Velarization
related to Voicelessness · 9
Approximant → As, Ball, Clark, Disagreement, In, Positions, Rahilly, There, Yallop
related to Alternation and glide-formation · 7
Approximant → Dutch, For, In, In American English, Maoist, This, Ukrainian
related to Contrast with fricatives · 4
Approximant → According, However, In, When
related to Gutturals · 4
Approximant → For, IPA, Occasionally, Therefore
related to Types · 4
Approximant → For, Labial, The, They
related to Nasals · 3
Approximant → Authors, The, While

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approximants fricatives also may voiceless vowels articulation languages airflow turbulent rhotic semivowels often distinction fricative two consonants sounds spanish however

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Galicianinstance ofparticularly when discussing the phonetics of Spanish and other Iberian languages0.80text
Approximantrelated to Alternation and glide-formationIn0.60section
Approximantrelated to Alternation and glide-formationIn American English0.60section
Approximantrelated to Alternation and glide-formationThis0.60section
Approximantrelated to Alternation and glide-formationFor0.60section
Approximantrelated to Alternation and glide-formationUkrainian0.60section
Approximantrelated to Alternation and glide-formationMaoist0.60section
Approximantrelated to Alternation and glide-formationDutch0.60section
Approximantrelated to Contrast with fricativesAccording0.60section
Approximantrelated to Contrast with fricativesIn0.60section
Approximantrelated to Contrast with fricativesWhen0.60section
Approximantrelated to Contrast with fricativesHowever0.60section

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