“Watt listened for a time, for the voice was far from unmelodious. The fricatives in particular were pleasing.”

“But then, little by little, the words become only sounds, a random collection of glottals and fricatives, a storm of whirling phonemes.”

“It is relatively easy to learn to produce the fricatives corresponding to all the major places of articulation.”

“We can note, for instance, the general avoidance of fricatives and affricates in pidgin phonological inventories.”