| 1. | The retroflex and palatal sibilants had also merged by that time.
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| 2. | In such cases the voiced palato-alveolar sibilant is transcribed.
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| 3. | In such cases the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant is transcribed.
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| 4. | However, the voiced sibilant is not affected by this environment.
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| 5. | Doubling the consonant thus reinforces its voiceless sibilant / s / sound.
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| 6. | The English sibilants are a more high pitched subset of the stridents.
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| 7. | Only a few languages with sibilants lack the hissing type.
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| 8. | Some languages have only a single hushing sibilant and no hissing sibilant.
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| 9. | Some languages have only a single hushing sibilant and no hissing sibilant.
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| 10. | It is the sibilant equivalent of the voiced palatal fricative.
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