non-sibilant

/nɑnˈsɪb.ɪ.lənt/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English

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A non-sibilant consonant.

"If streaming is responsible for differentiation and prediction, then neither should be found with the non-sibilant fricatives, spectrally higher /T/ and lower /f/, because their energy distributions are broad and overlap with those of vowels."
"Turbulence noise is stronger in sibilants /s, z, ʃ, ʒ/ than non-sibilant /f, v, θ, ð, h/."

From non- + sibilant.

non-sibilants (plural)

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The recorded pronunciation is /nɑnˈsɪb.ɪ.lənt/.

What does non-sibilant mean?

Where does non-sibilant come from?

From non- + sibilant.

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