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The phoneme s is being replaced by the voiceless postalveolar fricative in the US
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Linguistic sources discuss /s/-retraction and sibilant variation in American English pointing toward some conditioned or partial phonetic shifts, but do not establish a general replacement of the phoneme s by the voiceless postalveolar fricative across the US.

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Frontiers | Immediate Integration of Coarticulatory Cues for /s/-Retraction in American English
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Frontiers | Immediate Integration of Coarticulatory Cues for /s/-Retraction in American English #### Psychology of Language Published inFrontiers in Communication 1.6 impact factor3 citescore Part of a Research TopicFuzzy Boundaries: Ambiguity in Speech Production and Comprehension57k views12 articles ## ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Front. Commun., 24 May 2022 Sec. Psychology of Language Volume 7 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.858520 # Immediate Integration of Coarticulatory Cues for /s/-Retraction in American English - JBJacob B. Phillips * Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States Article metrics View details ## Abstract Coarticulatory “noise” has long been presumed to benefit the speaker at the expense of the listener. However, recent work has found that listeners make use of that variation in real time to aid speech processing, immediately integrating coarticulatory cues as soon as they become available. Yet sibilants, sounds notable for their high degree of context-dependent variability, have been presumed to be unavailable for immediate integration, requiring that listeners hold all cues in a buffer until all relevant
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About [s] being replaced by the voiceless postalveolar fricative in the ...
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# About [s] being replaced by the voiceless postalveolar fricative in the US Tags: phonetics, sound-change, sociophonetics - Score: 5 - Views: 446 - Answers: 3 - Answered: yes - Asked by: Duarte Alfonso Martin (365 rep) - Asked: 2019-01-02 - Edited: 2019-01-03 - Site: linguistics ## Question I'm recently listening this replacement a lot on youtube, it's as if the practice is on the rising. Is it? what conditions such occurrence? Where in the US is it happening? And how did it all begin? ## Answers ### Answer by brass tacks (score: 4) Without specific examples, it's hard to say what exactly you're hearing. Different languages (or accents) have different boundaries for what exactly counts as /s/ vs. /ʃ/, so it's possible that the speakers you are hearing do not really "replace" their /s/ with [ʃ], but just use a pronunciation that sounds more like [ʃ] to you. But it's also possible that they really are using [ʃ] (possibly even /ʃ/) where a typical reference English accent would have /s/. It is known that English /s/ can have retracted pronunciations; I haven't personally read a lot of the literature about this topic, but there seems to be a decent amount (maybe some of the
Contextualizing /s/ retraction: Sibilant variation and change in Washington D.C. African American Language | Language Variation and Change | Cambridge Core
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Contextualizing /s/ retraction: Sibilant variation and change in Washington D.C. African American Language | Language Variation and Change | Cambridge Core Search --- Institution Login Search Hostname: page-component-5db58dd55d-jhf8m Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-06-13T14:28:25.376Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false - English - Français # Contextualizing /s/ retraction: Sibilant variation and change in Washington D.C. African American Language Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2022 Show author details --- * *Corresponding author. E-mail: kgunter@uoregon.edu --- Article contents - Abstract - References Get access Share Cite Rights & Permissions --- ## Abstract Recent work has demonstrated an ongoing change across varieties of English in which /s/ retracts before consonants, particularly before /tɹ/ clusters (e.g., Lawrence, 2000; Shapiro, 1995; Stuart-Smith et al., 2019). Much of this work has focused on the social and linguistic distributions of /stɹ/ within single communities, without an examination of the broader sibilant space (e.g., /s/ and /ʃ/). Meanwhile, analyses across multiple corpora have shown that /s/ and
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