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Voiceless labiodental fricative [f]
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The voiceless labiodental fricative [f] is a phone.
Features[edit | edit source]
- Its manner of articulation is a fricative, which means, which means that the airflow is partially obstructed, creating audible friction.
- Its place of articulation is labiodental, which means that the sound is produced by the lower lip coming into contact with the upper teeth. .
- It’s a voiceless consonant, which means that the vocal cords do not vibrate during the articulation of the sound.
It’s classified as a labiodental fricative, and has a voiced counterpart, the voiced labiodental fricative [v].
Representation[edit | edit source]
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the voiceless labiodental fricative has the IPA symbol lowercase F, i.e. ⟨f⟩, and the IPA number 128.
English[edit | edit source]
In English, this is the standard pronunciation of the F phoneme /f/.