• transcription delimiters. A sonority hierarchy or sonority scale is a hierarchical ranking of speech sounds (or phones). Sonority is loosely defined as the...
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  • 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...
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  • The sonority sequencing principle (SSP) or sonority sequencing constraint is a phonotactic principle that aims to explain or predict the structure of...
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  • 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...
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  • Sonority may refer to: sonorant sonority hierarchy, a ranking of speech sounds (or phones) by amplitude In music theory, a chord, particularly when speaking...
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  • 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...
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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...
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  • 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]...
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  • been retained in the Western European phonetic tradition. In the sonority hierarchy, liquids are considered the most sonorous sounds after vowels and...
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    great length, which are (more or less) syllabified according to a sonority hierarchy. For some subdialects, in practice, it is very difficult to tell where...
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    of preinitials in a consonant cluster follows a language-specific sonority hierarchy (Lai 2013a, 2013b): ʁ- > j- > N-, m- > v- > r-, l- > s-, z- Wobzi...
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  • can be seen as a movement on the sonority hierarchy from less sonorous to more sonorous, or on a strength hierarchy from stronger to weaker. In examples...
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  • suggestion is that rhotics are defined by their behaviour on the sonority hierarchy, namely, that a rhotic is any sound that patterns as being more sonorous...
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  • though, roots were always monosyllabic. Roots usually followed the sonority hierarchy, thus *ḱret- could possibly be a root, but *ḱetr- could not. There...
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  • 'belly' aŋo-mpi 'tongue' Lenition Fortition Consonant gradation Rendaku Sonority hierarchy Apophony Elision Historical linguistics Ball, M. J.; N. Müller (1992)...
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  • applicable, e.g., juoks+ta → juosta assimilation of clusters violating sonority hierarchy if applicable, e.g., nuol+ta → nuolla, sur+ta → surra 't' weakens...
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  • ’. Hiw's phonology follows the Sonority Sequencing Principle, with the following language-specific sonority hierarchy: vowels > glides > liquids > nasals...
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  • "key") or low (as in "car") respectively. Also, this scale is not the sonority hierarchy. Nims, John Frederick, and David Mason (2000). Western Wind: an Introduction...
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  • Bion. R. A.H., F. Macagno, M. Nespor, I. Berent, and J. Mehler. Sonority hierarchy in one-month-old infants’ brains. in Boston University Conference...
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  • it this way: "As the ear becomes acclimatized to a sonority within a particular context, the sonority will gradually become 'emancipated' from that context...
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  • the horizontalization, "the elaboration in time of a governing vertical sonority – a chord or an interval. [...] When an interval is horizontalized, its...
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    highest possible level of virtuosity and playability. Mozart focused on sonority and distinction between flute and strings as a way to isolate the main...
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    pronunciations, their particular expressions, their syntax and their sonorities. Although it is not transcribed, these islanders call their Creole "patois"...
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    Sugimori Satoshi Tajiri Kunihiko Yuyama Organizations Ambrella Genius Sonority ILCA Wizards of the Coast Community MissJirachi Pokémon Challenges Nuzlocke...
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    musicians that emerged in Oporto. With a distinct logo and an unusual sonority that began to make an impression on the nights of their hometown, Terrain...
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    as [eŋˈɡema]. When adapting word-final complex codas that show rising sonority, an epenthetic /e/ is inserted between the two consonants. For example...
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  • of each chromatic step and other secondary key areas modulatory space hierarchical organizations of the chromatic set such as George Perle's the use of...
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    trumpet in A, tenor trombone, and bass trombone. Because of its dry wind sonorities, divertimento character, and open and self-conscious adoption of "classical"...
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  • musical production in which improvisation plays a role" and contains a "sonority and manner of phrasing which mirror the individuality of the performing...
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    most important influences. Both composers had a fascination with unusual sonorities, counterpoint masses, and the outer extremes of pitch space. The coordination...
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