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These included voiceless stops, such as “t” and “k,” and voiceless fricatives including “f,” “s” and “th.”

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I begin by pronouncing words with vowels of the long and short variety, then diphthongs, before moving on to consonants, including plosives and fricatives.

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Laleh grew up with the ear for it—the uvular fricatives and alveolar trills that I could never get quite right.

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Dairy products and other soft foods, such as gruel, porridge, soup and stews, helped shape our faces, the researchers claim, and allowed us to form the sounds “f” and “v”, known as labiodental fricatives.

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The reMarkable screen isn’t made out of glass, but rather a more durable and fricative material that really does feel like writing on paper with a pen or pencil.

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