Stephen Miller's #sibilants sound like a lethargic #potato.

The acquisition of L2 English complex onsets by L1 Farsi speakers Much previous work has shown that sibilant-initial complex onsets (SC onsets) differ in their typological, phonological, articulatory, and acquisitional properties from other onsets. The exact mechani...

Complex onsets that begin with #sibilants differ from other complex onsets in their phonological properties, articulation, and acquisition. What makes them special?

#LabPhon #Farsi #L2Phonology #epenthesis #openaccess

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#Sibilants on mobile apps and zoom calls are driving me up the wall... am I just more sensitive now or have they gotten more intense? Every kind of video genre has creators with this problem, not just ASMR. Sounds like they're eating the mic #audophile #audio #YouTube

Linguistic experience and social factors in speech perception: the case of merged speakers of Mandarin sibilants This work explores the combined effects of social expectations and a speaker’s production characteristics on the perception of alveolar versus retroflex sibilants that are variably merged in Taiwan Ma...

How are social expectations employed in cases of mergers in progress? A study of #TaiwanMandarin #sibilants finds that merged speakers may be somewhat desensitized to acoustic cues, but they readily employ social cues in speech perception. #sociophonetics #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...

Who the hell did she shag to get on #TOTP so often. #Sibilants