noun
- Plural of assibilation; the phonetic process by which a consonant sound becomes or is replaced by a sibilant sound (such as /s/ or /ʃ/).
Usage: linguistics; technical term
Examples
- Assibilations occur in many languages as a natural sound change over time.
- The linguist studied assibilations in Romance languages to understand historical phonetic shifts.
- In some dialects, assibilations have transformed older consonant clusters into sibilant sounds.
- The assibilations documented in this corpus show consistent patterns across speakers.