obstruents

As they expanded, they began, for inscrutable Frankish reasons, to devoice word-final obstruents this is the blue isogloss, thereby establishing Frankish as its own distinct, highly conservative dialect.

The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model 2009

Now, the question is, did they continue to devoice word-final obstruents?

The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model 2009

"Easier" in the sense that velar obstruents have the articulatory feature [+high] or at least [-low], which is shared by non-low vowels.

Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions 2008

But the question is whether, in the actual employment, and still more in what we may call the administration, of this and other diluents or obstruents of story, the artist has or has not made blunders in his art; and it is very difficult not to answer this in the affirmative.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

The word eclecticism has been used so much for the last 30 years that it has become meaningless - a sad, grasping pile of obstruents and sibilants, like a dying fire's last pops and hisses.

NYT > Home Page By BEN RATLIFF 2010

And, as regards labial obstruents, it may be English which is the lesser corruptor, since it retains the obstruency which Britan-no-Latin converted to nasality.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 3 1975