Sibilants are louder than their non-sibilant counterparts, and most of their acoustic energy occurs at higher … See more

All sibilants are coronal consonants (made with the tip or front part of the tongue). However, there is a great deal of variety among sibilants as to tongue shape, point of contact on the tongue, and point of contact on t… See more

The following table shows the types of sibilant fricatives defined in the International Phonetic Alphabet:
Diacritics can be used for finer detail. For example, apical and laminal alveolars can be specifie… See more

The attested possibilities, with exemplar languages, are as follows. Note that the IPA diacritics are simplified; some articulations would require two diacritics to be fully specified, but only one is used in order to ke… See more

Not including differences in manner of articulation or secondary articulation, some languages have as many as four different types of sibilants. For example, Northern Qiang and Southern Qiang have a four-way distinction … See more

Authors including Chomsky and Halle group [f] and [v] as sibilants. However, they do not have the grooved articulation and high frequencies of other sibilants, and most phoneticians continue to group them together with … See more