英和和英

名詞

sibilance (countable and uncountable, plural sibilances)

1. The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality.
   • 1990 December 23, Christopher Wittke, “Pop Goes 1990”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 23, page 9:

     The Pet Shop Boys are yet another synth-pop duo, albeit one that is not quite out of the closet. […] In past interviews, however, they [the Pet Shop Boys] have referred to their sound as "specifically gay disco," and their lyrics have that certain queenly something that lead singer Neil Tennant sings with an adorable sibilance.

   • 2000, Elaine A. Clark, There's Money Where Your Mouth Is: An Insider's Guide to a Career in Voice-Overs, Second Edition, Back Stage Books, →ISBN, page 24:

     The following exercises help combat sibilance, plosives, lazy tongue, and mouth problems.

   • 2006, Barbara Alysen, Electronic Reporter: Broadcast Journalism in Australia, Second Edition, University of New south Wales Press, →ISBN, page 118:

     A string of words beginning with ‘s’ will cause sibilance.

   • 2009, Jean Ann Wright, M. J. Lallo, Voice-Over for Animation, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 28:

     Work to control the sibilance of your s sounds.

   • 2012, Michael Zager, Music Production: For Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Second Edition, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 277:

     Most often sending the vocal through a de-esser will either eliminate the sibilance or greatly reduce its sound.