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nonsibilant

nonsibilant is the alternative form of non-sibilant.

Meaning of non-sibilant

Adjective

non-sibilant (not comparable)

  1. Not sibilant; not having the characteristics of a 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.(Can we date this quote?), Amanda Rysling and John Kingston, “Sibilant and Non-Sibilant Fricatives are Parsed Alike”, in ASSTA

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Forms of nonsibilant

pluralnonsibilants

Questions about nonsibilant

What is nonsibilant the alternative form of?
Nonsibilant is the alternative form of non-sibilant.

Words near nonsibilant in the dictionary

  1. nonshrinking
  2. nonshrubby
  3. nonshunted
  4. nonshy
  5. nonsialylated
  6. nonsibilant
  7. nonsibilants
  8. nonsiblicidal
  9. nonsibling
  10. nonsiblings
  11. nonsiccative

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