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	noun • a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
	45%	9		It describes the shift from voiceless stops to fricatives, and voiced stops to voiceless stops
	noun • a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages
	31%	12		The change of a non-sibilant consonant to a sibilant consonant.
	noun • the development of a consonant phoneme into a sibilant • pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound

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New York Times19 Jan 2007	Down 40
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