Assibilation

As assibilation, Assibilation ( from Latin ad "to " and sībilāre " hiss " ) or Zetazismus ( according to Zeta, the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet ) is in the phonetics of the change of a sound in a sibilant sound ( sibilant, eg [s ], [ z ], [ ʃ ], [ ʒ ], etc. ), usually as a result of palatalization, respectively. In particular, it ( [e ], [i ] palatal vowels, for example ) is the change of velar plosives [ ɡ ] and [ k] before front vowels called sibilance. Assibilierungsvorgänge can proceed at a Affrizierung, in which case a sibilantische affricates (eg [ ts ], [ tʃ ], [ dʒ ], etc. ) results in combination.

Examples:

• In the North Sea Germanic languages, mainly in English and Frisian: Latin caseus [ k ] " cheese " > Old English. CESE [ tʃ - ], Engl. cheese [ tʃ - ], western fries. tsiis (but see German cheese, ndl. kaas )
• Ancient Greek κυριακή kyriake "church" > Old English. cirice [ t͡ʃɪrɪt͡ʃɛ ], Engl. church [ ː tʃ t͡ʃə ] (but see ndl. kerk )
• See also Engl. chin " chin " and German chin, Old-English. lecgan [- dʒ - ] "put" and set dt

• Latin gens [ g ] " Gender, Ethnic " > French gens [ ʒ -] Italian gente [ dʒ - ] " people " around. Ginta [ dʒ - ] " clan "
• Latin centum [ k ] "hundred" > French cent [ s ], Italian cento [ tʃ -] port. cem [ tʃ - ] "hundred"

Assibilation also occurs in the German pronunciation of the suffix- tion as in generation as [- TSIO ː n], for example. It has the character of an epenthesis ( Lauteinschiebung to facilitate the pronunciation ) of [s ] between the plosive [t ] and the palatal semi-vowel [i ] here. Similar phenomena are also found in other languages ​​, such as the pronunciation of -ing as [- ʃən ] in English, by -tion as [- sjɔ ] (next unassibiliertem [- tjɔ ] in certain cases) in French or tie ( as in generatie ) as [ TSI ] in Dutch.