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单词 assibilate
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Definition of assibilate in English:

assibilate

verb əˈsɪbɪleɪtəˈsɪbəˌleɪt
[with object]Phonetics
  • Pronounce (a sound) as a sibilant or affricate ending in a sibilant (e.g. sound t as ts).

    〔语音〕把…发成嘶擦音(或以嘶擦音结尾的塞擦音)(如把t音发成ts音)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Moreover, gay men who speak with what a North American newsreader would consider an ‘accent’ - such as British, Australian, or even Texan gays - rarely assibilate at all.
    • As such, increasing the periodicity in an assibilated rhotic may lead to the perception of the trill, even if it is not present.
    • This would return forms of the verb annuntiare whether assimilated or not (ann - vs. adn-), assibilated or not (nunci - vs. nuncti-).
    • In medieval manuscripts ti or di with a following vowel or diphthong are frequently replaced by z.

Derivatives

  • assibilation

  • noun əsɪbɪˈleɪʃ(ə)nəˌsɪbəˈleɪʃ(ə)n
    Phonetics
    • The other characteristic feature, which Frisian has carried on a step farther than English, is the assibilation of velars before front vowels.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Gay men are not the only group whose members sometimes speak with assibilation.
      • I revisited this community to collect data to compare the current findings with the ones yielded in a former study where I contrasted the assibilation in Mexico and in the United States.
      • The second type of evidence, based on the behaviour of dental stops vis-à-vis the process of assibilation, shows that two consonants not separated at the underlying level by one of the full vowels/a, i, u/are adjacent at the surface.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Latin assibilat- 'hissed at', from the verb assibilare, from ad- 'to' + sibilare 'to hiss'.

Definition of assibilate in US English:

assibilate

verbəˈsibəˌlātəˈsɪbəˌleɪt
[with object]Phonetics
  • Pronounce (a sound) as a sibilant or affricate ending in a sibilant (e.g. sound t as ts).

    〔语音〕把…发成嘶擦音(或以嘶擦音结尾的塞擦音)(如把t音发成ts音)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This would return forms of the verb annuntiare whether assimilated or not (ann - vs. adn-), assibilated or not (nunci - vs. nuncti-).
    • As such, increasing the periodicity in an assibilated rhotic may lead to the perception of the trill, even if it is not present.
    • Moreover, gay men who speak with what a North American newsreader would consider an ‘accent’ - such as British, Australian, or even Texan gays - rarely assibilate at all.
    • In medieval manuscripts ti or di with a following vowel or diphthong are frequently replaced by z.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Latin assibilat- ‘hissed at’, from the verb assibilare, from ad- ‘to’ + sibilare ‘to hiss’.

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