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sonorant Phonetics.|səˈnɔərənt|
[f. sonorous a. + -ant1.]
A resonant; a sound produced with the vocal tract so positioned that spontaneous voicing is possible; a vowel, a glide, or a liquid or nasal consonant. Also attrib. or as adj.
1934in Webster. 1943[see resonant a. 1 b]. 1956Jakobson & Halle in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 349/2 It is advantageous to range these two related classes of phonemes under a common heading of sonorants. 1963[see obstruent n. c]. 1968Chomsky & Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 302 Vowels, glides, nasal consonants, and liquids are sonorant. 1978Language LIV. 327 Among these are:..; reduction of palatalized sonorants to simple yod, and of c̆ s̆ to s. 1981Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. lxviii. 30 The major sonority distinction is between sonorants (i.e. nasals, liquids and all vocoids) on the one hand and obstruents (stops, affricates and fricatives) on the other. |