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stridency|ˈstraɪdənsɪ|
[f. strident: see -ency.]
The quality of being strident.
1865Even. Standard 6 June, A peculiar stridency characterised the voice of the assailant. 1883Besant All in Garden Fair ii. i, The piano..required now the most delicate fingering to keep down the stridency of age. 1968Chomsky & Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 329 Stridency is a feature restricted to obstruent continuants and affricates. 1976Word 1971 XXVII. 220 This appearance of the Stridency distinction among Stops and Continuants evidently does not generalise immediately to the affricates. 1979Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XXIV. i. 20 It incorporates both articulatory (anteriority-coronality) and acoustic (stridency) features. |