Associations to the word «Assibilation»

Wiktionary

ASSIBILATION, noun. (linguistics) A sound change resulting in a sibilant consonant, commonly the final phase of palatalization.

Dictionary definition

ASSIBILATION, noun. The development of a consonant phoneme into a sibilant.
ASSIBILATION, noun. Pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope