Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative

Template:Infobox IPA The voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative or laminal postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is s\.

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Features

Features of the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative:

In English

The voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative does not occur in English, and many English speakers have difficulty distinguishing it from ʃ or ç. This can be seen, for example, in the realization by some English speakers of German ich (Standard German [ɪç]) as [ɪʃ], possibly influenced by dialects of German where the pronunciation is [ɪɕ].

In other languages

Belarusian

German

In some dialects of German, particularly those spoken in the Rhineland, the sound Germans know as ich-Laut (in most dialects, a voiceless palatal fricative) is realized as . In those dialects, the voiced and voiceless alveolo-palatal fricatives are allophones. See German phonology.

Hungarian

Japanese

In Japanese, the voiceless alveolar fricative gets assimilated to the voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative when it is followed by [i] or [j]: (or ) is pronounced instead of , and is therefore Romanized as shi instead of si.

Korean

Mandarin

The voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative occurs in Mandarin when followed by , , or , and is represented by x in pinyin. This sound is also found in combination with in j and q.

Polish

See also


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