On the other hand, word-final fricative and affricate ' sibilants ', which are also always voiceless before pause, assimilate in voice both to following word-initial consonants and to vowels.
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The palatal glide is incorrectly placed in the same column as the sibilants, and the postalveolarsibilantis listed separately.
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The exact pronunciation of the three sibilants may vary, but they are distinct phonemes.
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A particular subset of fricatives are the sibilants.
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There are a large number of types of postalveolar sounds, especially among the sibilants.
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The consonants are sibilants, a variety of fricative.
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Fricatives at coronal (front of tongue) places of articulation are usually, though not always, sibilants.
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A similar effect to high vowel deletion can be observed with sibilants.
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Because of the prominence of these sounds, they are the most common and most stable of sibilants cross-linguistically.
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A hissing noise produced by a gas discharge tube created the sibilants (voicesless frictive sounds).
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The voiceless sibilants, and, are palatalized to and before the front vowels and.
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Over time, the detection of high-pitched sounds becomes more difficult, and speech perception is affected, particularly of sibilants and fricatives.
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The evidence in favor of the various affricate interpretations of the sibilants consists both of direct evidence from transcriptions and of structural evidence.
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However, this is potentially problematic in that not all alveolar retracted sibilants are apical (see below), and not all apical alveolar sibilants are retracted.
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The sibilants /s, z/ were palatalized before /i/ and /e/.
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