单词 | sonancy |
释义 | sonancyn. Chiefly Phonetics. The quality of being sonant (sonant adj. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > voiced or voiceless sound gen > [noun] > voiced sound > quality vocality1645 sonancy1860 voicedness1912 1860 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 11 317 S between two vowels usually becomes sonant, as in misery, deposit, busy, the sonancy of the vowels being communicated to it. 1884 Amer. Ann. Deaf & Dumb Oct. 249 The sonants ‘soft’, or ‘flat’, or ‘weak’, especially when the element of sonancy is suppressed. 1918 J. A. Mason Lang. of Salinan Indians i. 11 In the case of aspirates sonancy begins after a marked expulsion of breath. 1947 C. V. Riper Speech Correction (ed. 2) vii. 153 The person who says ‘back’ for ‘bag’ illustrates a sonancy error. 1988 B. L. Knapp Music, Archetype & Writer vi. 101 Nonfrictional consonants..flow freely now, almost vowel-like in their smoothness and sonancy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1860 |
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