transcription delimiters. A sonority hierarchy or sonority scale is a hierarchical ranking of speech sounds (or phones). Sonority is loosely defined as the...

the consonants with the highest sonority (*l, *r, *y, *n) are nearest to the vowel, and the ones with the lowest sonority such as plosives are furthest...

Sonority may refer to: sonorant sonority hierarchy, a ranking of speech sounds (or phones) by amplitude In music theory, a chord, particularly when speaking...

nucleus. Sonority is a measure of the amplitude of a speech sound. The particular ranking of each speech sound by sonority, called the sonority hierarchy, is...

The sonority sequencing principle (SSP) or sonority sequencing constraint is a phonotactic principle that aims to explain or predict the structure of...

cluster, the sonority typically decreases from first to last, as in the English word help. This is called the sonority hierarchy (or sonority scale). English...

been retained in the Western European phonetic tradition. In the sonority hierarchy, liquids are considered the most sonorous sounds after vowels and...

frequently voiceless, sonorants are almost always voiced. In the sonority hierarchy, all sounds higher than fricatives are sonorants. They can therefore...

likely[citation needed] than the other way around (which would violate the sonority hierarchy). Without [sd] there would be an empty space between [sb] and [sɡ]...

'belly' aŋo-mpi 'tongue' Lenition Fortition Consonant gradation Rendaku Sonority hierarchy Apophony Elision Historical linguistics Ball, M. J.; N. Müller (1992)...