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Voiced alveolar fricative [z]
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The voiced alveolar fricative [z] is a consonant phone.
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Features[edit | edit source]
The voiced alveolar sibilant 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 alveolar, which means that the sound is produced by the tongue making contact with the alveolar ridge, located just behind the upper front teeth.
- It’s a voiced consonant, which means that the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation of the sound.
Classification[edit | edit source]
It’s classified as an alveolar sibilant, and has a voiceless counterpart, the voiceless alveolar sibilant [s].
Representation[edit | edit source]
In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), it has the IPA symbol lowercase Z, i.e. ⟨z⟩, and the IPA number 133.
English[edit | edit source]
In English, this is the standard pronunciation of the Z phoneme /z/.
