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frequently voiceless,
sonorants are
almost always voiced. In the
sonority hierarchy, all
sounds higher than
fricatives are
sonorants. They can therefore...
- and
sonorant consonants: [ḁ], [l̥], [ŋ̊]. In
Russian use of the IPA, the
voicing diacritic may be
turned for voicelessness, e.g. ⟨ṋ⟩.
Sonorants are sounds...
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Obstruents contrast with
sonorants,
which have no such
obstruction and so resonate. All
obstruents are consonants, but
sonorants include vowels as well...
- ('knee'). Only in
initial position do the
voiceless sonorants contrast with the
corresponding voiced sonorants. Finally,
before aspirated consonants and after...
- descender, such as in [ŋ̍].
Syllabic consonants in most
languages are
sonorants, such as
nasals and liquids. Very few have
syllabic obstruents (i.e.,...
- The
voiceless alveolar trill differs from the
voiced alveolar trill /r/ only by the
vibrations of the
vocal cord. It
occurs in a few languages, usually...
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consonant at the end of a word.
voiceless sonorants: clay [kl̥eɪ̯]; snow RP [sn̥əʊ̯], GA [sn̥oʊ̯]
syllabic sonorants:
paddle [ˈpad.l̩],
button [ˈbʌt.n̩] The...
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unstressed syllables.
Consonantal forms of
glottalized sonorants occur only
after vowels. The
plain sonorants when
vocalic have a
different pronunciation at the...
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- The
voiceless uvular fricative is a type of
consonantal sound that is used in some
spoken languages. The
symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet...
