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Assibilate (Verb)

Change into a sibilant; "In the syllable /si/, the /s/ sibilates in Japanese".

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

The Greek words phikeros and thorax assibilate the di sounds before voicing them to z sounds for easier pronunciation.
In that dialect of English both interdental fricatives and palatoalveolar affricates are observed to assibilate more frequently in regular speech.
Prior to the velar stop, the lateral and alveolar stops assibilate in Cherokee dialects that have this particular sound transition.
Phonological investigations reveal the syllable coda stops are not allowed to assibilate naturally within words in this linguistic method.
On the other hand when next to a palatal in this variant of Spanish, the plain stop tends to lenite after the sharp diphthong and does assibilate.

Insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound).

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

The linguist noted that in the local dialect, the initial 't' sound tends to assibilate a soft 'sh' sound when spoken quickly.
In some languages, an 'm' sound is more likely to assibilate an 's' or 'z' sound when it precedes a vowel sound.
The specific sound in the word was altered to assibilate a preceding 'ts' sound that doesn't normally occur naturally in the language.
During the language's evolution, 'k' sounds often assibilated soft 'sh' sounds under certain phonological conditions.
When regional accents were analyzed, it was noticed that 'p' sounds were more likely to assibilate 'z' sounds in faster spoken speech.