Specific term required. In Navajo, laterals interestingly do not affect the harmony of these sounds. A Lal Zimman article about gender as “stylistic bricolage” studies transmasculine people’s production of F0 (“f-zero”) and one of these sounds. Erez Lavon digitally lengthened one of these sounds to show that, along with pitch range, these sounds may be indexical of a certain social group. Benjamin Munson argues that one of these sounds is actually hyper-articulated, not (*) mispronounced, in an accent characteristic of one social group. Peninsular Spanish retains a “distinction” in these sounds, but Andalusian neutralizes them in ceceo (“sess-AY-oh”). These sounds are characteristically more marked in American gay male speech. For 10 points, an urban legend says that a speech disorder in a Spanish king led Castillian to pronounce what hissing sounds with a lisp? ■END■
ANSWER: sibilants [or sibilant fricatives; accept whistled sibilants; prompt on consonants, fricatives, affricates, obstruents, coronals, stridents, s-like sounds, or sh-like sounds]
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= Average correct buzz position