| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| ejective | ejective stop, affricate, or fricative |
| ejective | (of a voiceless stop, affricate, or fricative) produced with air compressed above the closed glottis |
| 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 |
| sonorant | voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w) |
