How To Use Sibilant In A Sentence
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If the point of the tongue be placed between the teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the Th sibilant is produced, as in thigh, and should have a proper character, as [TN: Looks like the Greek 'phi'].
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
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A slight aspirate preceding and modifying the sibilant, which is, however, the stronger of the two consonants; _e.g. hsing_ = _hissing_ without the first _i_,
Myths and Legends of China
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His deep, slightly sibilant voice right by my ear nearly made me jump out of my skin.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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TH is either sibilant as in thigh; or semivocal as in thee; both of which are simple sounds, and want two new characters.
Note XV
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To Rosie's horror, Melissa makes her grand entrance wearing what she terms "a jersey mumu" or, "Jersey mumu"... you really can't tell with those sibilant Ss.
Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 5: Serve and Deliver
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He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.
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The -i- neighbouring s also would motivate the later palatalization of the sibilant to ś.
Archive 2010-06-01
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They stood close together in the cramped space, and he spoke softly in the remembered sibilant voice.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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Once the sibilant disappeared, it would be all too easy for even a native speaker to get confused between a historical phonetic k an allophone of voiced *gʰ following a sibilant and the homophonous phoneme *k.
PIE "look-alike stems" - *(s)kerp- vs. *gʰrebʰ-
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Pishing, the use of certain sibilant sounds to attract hidden birds, works because it triggers the level of hostile curiosity that presages mobbing.
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Respite comes, as one might expect with Dickens, in equally phonemic terms, floated upon (in that same paragraph) the sibilant, assonant, and iambic bonding of "inseparable and blessed" to describe the union of the title figure and Arthur Clennam, the man whose fetishistic vision of her impoverishment has seen her until now as a
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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The word is sibilant on Chas's tongue, accompanied by an asymmetrical hitch of his upper lip.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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Nam vicino inter se sonore attracto sibilant rictu, ita tamen si prioris ictus pone dentes excitatus ad medium lenis agitetur, sequentis autem crasso spiritu hispidum sonet, quia per conjunctionem C et S, quarum et locum implet et vim exprimit, ut sensu aurium ducemur, efficitur.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it
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There were shouts and laughter and sibilant whispers.
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If the point of the tongue be placed between the teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the Th sibilant is produced, as in thigh, and should have a proper character, as [*].
Note XV
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The fortition of laryngeals before the sibilant is just commonsense linguistics and doesn't require a more fanciful explanation beyond that.
Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person
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Her voice was soft and polite though and flavoured with gentle English sibilants, with ever such cute flecks of a darling ethnic Punjabi accent.
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The name Susanna is also repeated, echoing that same vowel and sibilant.
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Some readers do elocution lessons to get rid of troublesome sibilants or worrisome vowels (try imitating a fish).
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We all spoke German, too, at the table - except when talking to the waitress, when we settled into sibilant cadences and sharp vowels.
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They stood close together in the cramped space, and he spoke softly in the remembered sibilant voice.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.
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He went to the threshold, intending to call for Maxine again, but before he could do so he heard the sound of low, sibilant laughter.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Once the sibilant disappeared, it would be all too easy for even a native speaker to get confused between a historical phonetic k an allophone of voiced *gʰ following a sibilant and the homophonous phoneme *k.
PIE "look-alike stems" - *(s)kerp- vs. *gʰrebʰ-
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In speaking of articulate sounds they may be conveniently divided first into clear continued sounds, expressed by the letters called vowels; secondly, Into hissing sounds, expressed by the letters called sibilants; thirdly, Into semivocal sounds, which consist of a mixture of the two former; and, lastly, Into interrupted sounds, represented by the letters properly termed consonants.
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
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S: The nineteenth letter of the alphabet, which is called a sibilant, because it makes a hissing sound like a goose.
The Silly Syclopedia
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It doesn't involve any slurry sibilants and its only pesky, easy-to-drop vowel is held prisoner between two rugged consonants.
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My vocal is naturally sibilant, but I risked the enhancer anyway, and applied some de-essing in software as usual.
Grittier Vocal? « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
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You hear the sibilant whisper of gentle waves washing the shore and you know the sea is calm tonight.
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Though everyone else in the picture speaks in some variation of a British accent, poor Jolie has been given the Transylvanian throat-sucker's throaty, sibilant vowels, as well as a wardrobe of snakes.
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English, Chinese, and Japanese all share sounds that involve very high rates of air flow out of the mouth - the sibilant fricatives.
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But I love hearing French rapped - all those elisions and sibilants are a dreamy alternative to hard-consonant English spitting.
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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.
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She tried the name, again giving the hard consonant of the ‘K’ and the aitch a sibilant sound.
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They are low and insinuating, a kind of sibilant utterance:
Tentation de saint Antoine. English
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Dehinc duae supremae S et X jure jungentur, nam vicino inter se sonore attracto sibilant rictu, ita tamen si prioris ictus pone dentes excitatus ad medium lenis agitetur; sequentis autem crasso spiritu hispidum sonet qui per conjunctionem C et S, quarum et locum implet et vim exprimit, ut sensu aurium ducamur efficitur.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it
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He went to the threshold, intending to call for Maxine again, but before he could do so he heard the sound of low, sibilant laughter.
COLDHEART CANYON
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The terminating sequence -cv could only be the abbreviation of plural suffix -cva which is a regular allomorph of -xva when following a sibilant.
The "Tlusc Mar" Reading Error on the Piacenza Liver
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Yet did it quiver under the finger-tip caress in rhythmic vibrations that became whisperings and rustlings and mutterings of sound - but of sound so different; so elusively thin that it was shimmeringly sibilant; so mellow that it was maddening sweet, piping like an elfin horn, which last was just what Bassett decided would be like a peal from some bell of the gods reaching earthward from across space.
THE RED ONE
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Turn the page, and that sibilant sound can be traced to a snake looping its way through a lush tropical wilderness.
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From the quiet strains of a young Henry Mancini to the jarring sibilant tones whenever the monster makes an appearance, it is a piece of movie history.
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For a moment or two he remains silent as sibilantly he purses his lips and drinks some saffron-coloured tea from the saucer which the splayed fingers of his right hand are balancing on their tips.
Through Russia
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The sun also lingers in the sound pattern; sibilants coupled with long vowels elongate the lines, creating the effect of the lengthening rays of the evening sun.
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My phonology isn't much different in Mid IE than in PIE, save for the addition of labialized dental stops and sibilants and the absence of a phonemic plain/uvular contrast or palatal/plain for you traditionalists out there.
Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document
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The intensity of the raw, vitriolic malice in the sibilant voice was beyond anything in even his fevered, psychotic dreams.
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Modern Portuguese is characterized by an abundance of sibilant and palatal consonants and a broad spectrum of vowel sounds (five nasal phonemes and eight to ten oral ones).
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I have preferred the word sonisibilants to the word semivocal sibilants; as the sounds of these sonisibilants are formed in different apertures of the mouth, and not in the larynx like the vowels.
Note XV
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Most likely, medial *-h- which was probably a velar fricative became weakened at some point intervocalically and after sibilants.
The loss of mediofinal 'h' in Pre-Proto-Etruscan
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They held their breath, and let it out in sibilant whispers like the voice of a little wind moving among leaves; and he did not speak until they were almost aburst with expectation.
Caves of Terror
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Modern Portuguese is characterized by an abundance of sibilant and palatal consonants and a broad spectrum of vowel sounds.
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In speaking of articulate sounds they may be conveniently divided first into clear continued sounds, expressed by the letters called vowels; secondly, into hissing sounds, expressed by the letters, called sibilants; thirdly, into semivocal sounds, which consist of a mixture of the two former; and, lastly, into interrupted sounds, represented by the letters properly termed consonants.
Note XV
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Mr. Orne slowly fished a quill toothpick from the pocket of his overcoat, set the end of the quill in his mouth, and "sipped" the air sibilantly, gazing over Britt's head with professional gravity.
When Egypt Went Broke
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He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.
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Once it appears in the ambiguous reading kru(v)s (it can be a sibilant or a shibilant).
Novilara Stele remains a mystery
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If in the above situation of the tongue and teeth a sound be produced in the mouth, and the sonorous air be forced between them, the sonisibilant Th is formed, as in Thee; and should have an appropriated character as [*].
Note XV
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Aren't you precisely ascribing allophonic shwa devoicing as the cause of sibilant insertion?
Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops
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P; and air from the mouth be forced between them; the W sibilant is produced, as pronounced by the Germans, and by some of the inferiour people of London, and ought to have an appropriated character as thus [*].
Note XV
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The Hebrew text suggests that the difference consisted in the different articulation of the "sibilant": although the conquered heard sh, they could produce only s.
OUPblog
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A sibilant murmuring briefly pervaded the room.
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Rather, it's a sibilant problem, in which the sibilants are pronounced in a thinner, more 'hissy' fashion than is normal among American males.
Archive 2005-11-06
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They were modulated, sibilant sounds, fairly deep, probably due to length of the throat.
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3 Woodard, The ancient languages of Europe (2008), p.58 (see link): Beyond the aforementioned early fricative reflexes of stops and the ubiquitious dental sibilant /s/, there is orthographic evidence of additional sibilant consonants occuring dialectally.
Archive 2010-06-01
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Although an striking feature of Castilian Spanish and other variants of Spanish, respectively....have perserved the "sibilant" -s
Languagehat.com: ITALIAN DIALECTS.
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Aren't you precisely ascribing allophonic shwa devoicing as the cause of sibilant insertion?
Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops
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We all spoke German, too, at the table - except when talking to the waitress, when we settled into sibilant cadences and sharp vowels.
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The influential clasps gemstone box ebay amazon magnetic for ridding future risk is the sibilant view index (bpi).
Wii-volution
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Apparently it means: sibilant is a type of fricative or affricate consonant, made by directing a jet of air through a narrow channel in the vocal tract towards the sharp edge of the teeth.
Three Men (with Pens) and a Lady
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The Altaic forms with word-initial sibilant in place of expected *t- are surely caused by pre-Altaic palatalization before high front vowels as has also apparently occurred in its second person pronominal forms.
Prehistoric isoglosses in Proto-Steppe
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He spoke in sibilant English mocking my clumsy Arabic.
I Was Sold on the Slave Block « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
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(Lat. e, oe, ae) and i the c had already begun to assibilate in Latin itself; in O.Sp. it yielded the voiceless dental sibilant c
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The addition of e before s after sibilant consonants (pass/passes) and final o (go/goes).
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The word is sibilant on Chas's tongue, accompanied by an asymmetrical hitch of his upper lip.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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Low sibilant noises pulled me out of dreams of cold ocean waves washing on a shale beach.
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His deep, slightly sibilant voice right by my ear nearly made me jump out of my skin.
TIME OF THE WOLF
