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Voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ]
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The voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ] is a consonant phone.
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Features[edit | edit source]
The voiceless postalveolar fricative has the following features:
- Its manner of articulation is a fricative, which means that the airflow is partially obstructed, creating audible friction.
- Its place of articulation is postalveolar, which means that the sound is produced by the tongue making contact with the area just behind the alveolar ridge, but further back than for alveolar sounds.
- It’s a voiceless consonant, which means that the vocal cords do not vibrate during the articulation of the sound.
Classification[edit | edit source]
It’s classified as a postalveolar sibilant, and has a voiced counterpart, the voiced postalveolar fricative [ʒ].
Representation[edit | edit source]
In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), it has the IPA symbol esh, i.e. ⟨ʃ⟩, and the IPA number 134.
English[edit | edit source]
In English, this is the standard pronunciation of the SH phoneme /ʃ/, as in words like she and push.
