Assibilation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of making sibilant; specifically, in philology, the change of a dental or guttural (or a labial) mute into a sibilant (s, z, sh, zh, ch = tsh, j = dzh), or into a sound approaching that of a sibilant, as for instance a palatal.
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  • noun. Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch.
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  • noun. A sound change resulting in a sibilant consonant, commonly the final phase of palatalization.
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  • noun. pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound
  • noun. the development of a consonant phoneme into a sibilant
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