CONTINUANT

Continuant

A continuant is a sound produced with an incomplete closure of the oral vocal tract. Among consonants, there are two broad categories of continuants, fricatives and approximants. Approximants are sometimes called frictionless continuants.

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continuant

Noun

  1. A linguistic sound other than a stop
  2. A determinant formed from a tridiagonal matrix.

Adjective

  1. Continuing; prolonged; sustained.
    a continuant sound


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