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"English has several obstruents including plosives, fricatives, and affricates."
2
"The sounds /p/, /t/, and /k/ are voiceless obstruents."
3
"Nasals and liquids are not classified as obstruents."
4
"German has a wide range of obstruents in its phonemic inventory."
5
"In phonetics, obstruents are often contrasted with sonorants."
6
"In some languages, voiceless obstruents can become voiced in certain phonetic environments."
7
"In Old English, the sounds /ð/ and /θ/ were obstruents."
8
"In Japanese, the sounds /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, and /ʒ/ are voiceless and voiced obstruents."
9
"The word 'cat' contains two voiceless obstruents."
10
"In phonology, obstruents are often analyzed in terms of their place and manner of articulation."
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"Some languages have a larger number of obstruents than others."
2
"The voiceless obstruents in English include the sounds /p, t, k, f, θ, s, ʃ, h/."
3
"Nasals are not considered obstruents."
4
"Some obstruents, like the affricates /tʃ, dʒ/ in English, combine features of both stops and fricatives."
5
"The manner of articulation for obstruents includes stops, fricatives, and affricates."
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