What's the difference between assibilate and sibilant?
Assibilate
Definition:
(v. t.) To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant.
Example Sentences:
Sibilant
Definition:
(a.) Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.
(n.) A sibiliant letter.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is found that tongue thrust swallowing a) is the rule rather than the exception in children under 10 years of age, b) is not correlative with low tongue tip position at rest, c) is not closely linked up with dental malocclusion, and d) does not prevent, but may delay, the acquisition of correct sibilant articulation.
(2) Nasopharyngoscopy was used as a visual feedback tool in a 10-year-old girl who had a repaired bilateral cleft lip and palate and was unable to establish velopharyngeal closure during production of sibilant-fricative sounds.
(3) Distinctive sibilants were also found by the end of training.
(4) At the time of the initial assessment of all sibilant dyspneas, certain other complementary examinations should systematically be made: pulmonary radiography, ORL examination and exploration of respiratory function.
(5) Certain metrical properties of the articulatory gestures, such as width of the sibilant groove, were maintained.
(6) However, classification of only the voiceless sibilants was 98% correct when the moments from the Bark transformed spectra were used.
(7) The patients were compared to their sibilings and to the general population in Denmark.
(8) It was found that sibilant groove narrowing is a physiologic compensation for a reduced air supply in esophageal speech.
(9) By coincidence, I had just bought one of their supposedly remastered vinyl albums and been so repelled by the sound – thin, full of pops and crackles and excessive sibilance – that I had taken apart my turntable, in search of a fault that was actually in the grooves.
(10) I’ve always found it hard to get past that whistling sibilance on every “s” that Damon Albarn pronounces, and it stood in the way of me ever having any real affection for Blur.
(11) All of the subjects had normal hearing, while eleven of the twelve in the group showed some degree of sibilant distortion.
(12) Therefore, productive mastery of [s] and is not critically responsible for perception of the [s] distinction, nor for perceptual sensitivity to the consequences of sibilant-vowel coarticulation.
(13) Salient features in the auditory mode for the CI group were duration, sonorancy, and some manner attributes, while the HA subjects used these features as well as sibilancy and voicing.
(14) Dynamic palatometry indicated that this was achieved in part by increasing linguapalatal contact in stop sound production and narrowing the linguapalatal groove in sibilant sound production.
(15) There was no significant difference in the overall number of articulation errors made: however, there was a significantly higher rate of sibilant disorders among the kibbutz children.
(16) In the second experiment three subjects used visual articulatory feedback to vary sibilant groove width and place systematically.
(17) Diagnosis of ABPA is difficult, as findings such as sibilant rales, pulmonary infiltrates, bronchiectasies, anti-aspergillus precipitins may be present as single features in patients with cystic fibrosis.
(18) This investigation used palatometry to study stops, sibilants, and affricates in CV syllables (C = t,d,k,g,tf,d3; V = i,a) spoken by nine normal 6- to 14-year-old children.
(19) Sibilants were clearly the most frequently affected phonemes.
(20) Respiratory distress with episodes of cyanosis, intercostal retraction and sibilant rhonchi occurred in a 2-year-old boy over a 48-hour period following serious smoke inhalation.