| 单词 | rill spirant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrill spirant C2. Phonetics. attributive. Designating a fricative produced by forcing air through a groove-like aperture between the tongue and the roof of the mouth. Esp. in rill spirant. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [adjective] > spirant or continuant > fricative > type of rill1912 strident1956 1912 E. Prokosch in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 33 197 Spirants of these places of articulation can be formed in two ways: either, the surface of the tongue is convex, so that the breath passes through a narrow slit, as with þ, χ; or, the tongue forms a more or less distinct rill in its median line, as with s, sh. The former may be called slit sounds, the latter rill sounds. [Note] I use this rather awkward term [sc. rill] in translation of Jespersen's Rille. 1912 E. Prokosch in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 33 198 Nowhere in purely Germanic territory has a rill sound ever been developed from a slit sound or a stop. 1958 C. F. Hockett Course in Mod. Linguistics viii. 72 Both English /sz/ and English /θð/ are normally apico-alveolar, but the former are rill spirants, the latter slit spirants. 1987 P. M. Lloyd From Lat. to Spanish (1989) v. 332 It could be either a narrow rill sibilant or could have a flatter quality with the air striking a broader portion of the predorsum. < as lemmas |
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