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Definition of Sonorants
1. sonorant [n] - See also: sonorant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sonorants
Literary usage of Sonorants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"... but also consonants (stridents and sonorants) may be syllabic. ... as sometimes
pronounced; of syllabic sonorants in the [i] of kettle ('ketl), ..."
2. Afrika und Übersee by Carl Meinhof (1845)
"... pin The fact that sonorants and glottalized consonants (= C*,) may trigger
off devoicing of underlying voiced consonants within the same base morpheme ..."
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