CONTINUANT

A 'continuant' is a sound produced with an incomplete closure of the vocal tract. That is, any sound except a stop (plosive or nasal). An affricate is considered to be both stop and continuant.

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★ http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAContinuant.htm

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★ list of phonetics topics

★ sonorant

★ obstruent

★ schwa

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