SIBILANT
Definition and Phonetic Basis The term sibilant refers to a specific class of fricative speech sounds characterized by a high-amplitude, high-frequency noise generated through a carefully calibrated constriction in the vocal tract. These sounds, exemplified in English by the consonants /s/, /z/, /ʃ/ (as in “shoe”), and /ʒ/ (as in “measure”), are acoustically distinct from […]