Difference between revisions of "Continuant"
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In phonetics and phonology, a continuant is a feature which characterizes phonemes that are produced without complete closure in the vocal tract, allowing the air stream to continue.
Examples
In Dutch vowels, fricatives and the phonemes /h/, /j/, /w/, /l/, /r/ are continuants.
