| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| obstruents | A fricative or plosive speech sound |
| obstruent | A fricative or plosive speech sound |
| obstruent | a sound characterized by obstruction of the airstream, a plosive, fricative, or affricate |
| obstruents | OBSTRUENT, a sound characterized by obstruction of the airstream, a plosive, fricative, or affricate |
| weaken | to change (a speech sound) to an articulation requiring less effort, as from geminate to nongeminate or from stop to fricative |
| affricate | a consonant that begins as a plosive and ends as a fricative / to sound a consonant in this way |
