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Voiceless alveolar sibilant [s]

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The voiceless alveolar sibilant [s] is a consonant phone.

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Features[edit | edit source]

The voiceless alveolar sibilant has the following features:

  • Its manner of articulation is a fricative, which means that the airflow is partially obstructed, creating audible friction.
  • Its place of articulation is alveolar, which means that the sound is produced by the tongue making contact with the alveolar ridge, located just behind the upper front teeth.
  • It’s a voiceless consonant, which means that the vocal cords do not vibrate during the articulation of the sound.

Classification[edit | edit source]

It’s classified as an alveolar sibilant, and has a voiced counterpart, the voiced alveolar sibilant [z].

Representation[edit | edit source]

In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), it has the IPA symbol lowercase S, i.e. ⟨s⟩, and the IPA number 132.

English[edit | edit source]

In English, this is the standard pronunciation of the S phoneme /s/.

References[edit | edit source]