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What does frication mean?

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Noun
  1. Friction.
  2. (phonetics) Turbulent and noisy airflow.
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A successful voiced fricative thus requires a delicate balance between meeting the aerodynamic needs for both voicing and frication.
The first order derivative of the frication noise passes through the parallel filter set.
In order to maintain sustained voicing, the intraoral pressure might not be high enough to create the necessary frication noise, resulting in voiced approximants.
The shaded areas in a and b indicate the waveforms for the prenasalization of and the frication noise of, respectively.
The cutoff point was the onset of frication, which, in all cases, roughly coincided with the end of voicing.
Parallel processing: a noise, called frication noise, is added to the excitation source.

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