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Sibilant

Sibilants (from Latin: sibilans 'hissing') are fricative and affricate consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, produced with a high velocity jet of air going on to strike the edge of some obstruction, such as the teeth and sometimes the lips. Examples of sibilants in English are the consonants at the beginning of words sip, zip, ship, and genre.

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Sibilant types

CoronalGroovedAlveolo-palatalPalato-alveolarRetroflex
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Linguistic contrasts among sibilants

Manner of articulationSecondary articulationSouthern QiangLabializedEjective
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Possible combinations

OpenTypeLadefogedRetroflex consonantsShonaLabialized
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Overview

LatinFricativeAffricateAmplitudePitch
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Sibilant types

Symbols in the IPA

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Linguistic contrasts among sibilants

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Sibilant

Nodes101
Edges100
Triples109
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019802
Components1

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Sibilant

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related to Bibliography · 43
Sibilant → American Association, Antonio, Basque, Blackwell, Bright, California, California Anthropology, Ceceo, Dalbor, Fundamental Problems, Hispania, Ian, Indiana University Press, ISBN, John, José Ignacio, Journal, JSTOR, Just, Linguistics
related to Point of contact on the tongue · 14
Sibilant → Apical, Catford, For, However, IPA, Ladefoged, Maddieson, Northwest Caucasian, The, These, This, Ubykh, Usually, When
related to Whistled sibilants · 12
Sibilant → Bantu, Doke, In, IPA, Ladefoged, Maddieson, Other, Shona, The, They, Using, Whistled
related to Contested definitions · 10
Sibilant → African, Authors, Chomsky, English, Ewe, For, Halle, However, Some, The
related to Linguistic contrasts among sibilants · 9
Sibilant → Abkhaz, Besides, For, Not, Southern Qiang, The, The Bzyp, Toda, Ubykh
related to Symbols in the IPA · 6
Sibilant → Diacritics, For, International Phonetic Alphabet, Northwest Caucasian, The, There
related to overview · 4
Sibilant → In, Sibilants, The English, With
related to Tongue shape · 4
Sibilant → Because, Palatalization, Possible, The
related to Sibilant types · 3
Sibilant → All, However, The
related to Acoustics · 2
Sibilant → Hz, Sibilants

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sibilants tongue languages fricatives laminal retroflex also alveolar postalveolar apical articulation teeth types english tip sounds sound fricative alveolo-palatal palato-alveolar

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Ubykh are an exceptioninstance ofthe palato-alveolar sibilants in the Northwest Caucasian languages0.80text
Sibilantrelated to AcousticsSibilants0.60section
Sibilantrelated to AcousticsHz0.60section
Sibilantrelated to BibliographyBright0.60section
Sibilantrelated to BibliographyWilliam0.60section
Sibilantrelated to BibliographySibilants0.60section
Sibilantrelated to BibliographyCalifornia0.60section
Sibilantrelated to BibliographyJournal0.60section
Sibilantrelated to BibliographyCalifornia Anthropology0.60section
Sibilantrelated to BibliographyPapers0.60section
Sibilantrelated to BibliographyLinguistics0.60section
Sibilantrelated to BibliographyFundamental Problems0.60section

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