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| | Voiceless alveolar fricative - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
 | | Its manner of articulation is sibilant fricative, which means it is produced by directing air flow through a groove in the tongue at the place of articulation and directing it over the sharp edge of the teeth, causing high-frequency turbulence. |
 | | The voiceless alveolar sibilant occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the letter 's' in sit or pass. |
 | | Its manner of articulation is simple fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence, but without the grooved tongue and directed airflow, or the high frequencies, of a sibilant. |
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