0 making a "s" or "sh" sound:
a sibilant whisper
1 a "s" or "sh" sound:
The microphone exaggerates every sibilant.
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.
The palatal glide is incorrectly placed in the same column as the sibilants, and the postalveolar sibilant is listed separately.
The exact pronunciation of the three sibilants may vary, but they are distinct phonemes.
A particular subset of fricatives are the sibilants.
There are a large number of types of postalveolar sounds, especially among the sibilants.
The consonants are sibilants, a variety of fricative.
Fricatives at coronal (front of tongue) places of articulation are usually, though not always, sibilants.
A similar effect to high vowel deletion can be observed with sibilants.
