Questions tagged [sibilants]
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Voicing of sibilants before liquids, after voiced vowels?
I just ran across an interesting question from a friend about
the voicing of sibilants in English. She was asking why English
speakers pronounce the word muslim as muZlim (with a voiced
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Pronunciation of words ending with “-tion” [duplicate]
As far as I can recall there are just a few words in the English language which end with the spelling -tion after an 'S' which have a pronunciation ending as 'chan'. But in South Asia, 99% of the ...
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What's the rule for pronouncing “’s” as /z/ or /s/?
Is there a hard rule for what sound the 's makes? In words like John's, Dave's, man's, lord's, etc. it makes a /z/ sound, but in words like that's, it's, ship's, poet's, etc., it makes an /s/ sound.
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Is "question" pronounced with an "s" or with an "sh" sound?
In all dictionaries the word question is pronounced
/ˈkwɛst͡ʃən/, with the sound /t͡ʃ/ (like the ch in church) corresponding to the written ‹ti›.
I wanted to know if any phonological change happens ...
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Can a statement be "hissed" without any sibilants?
Is using hissed as a replacement for said technically acceptable in dialogue without the presence of any sibilants?
"You fool!" she hissed.
I understand that hissed could be used to indicate a ...
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