sonority
English
Pronunciation
- (weak vowel distinction) IPA(key): /səˈnɑɹɪti/, /səˈnɔːɹɪti/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /səˈnɑɹəti/, /səˈnɔːɹəti/
Noun
sonority (countable and uncountable, plural sonorities)
- The property of being sonorous.
- 1979, High Fidelity Musical America (volume 29, issue 2, page 127)
- Another quality that bothers me is Brendel's inconsistent sonority. The treble is hard and pingy; the midrange is weighed down with a booming bass.
- 1979, High Fidelity Musical America (volume 29, issue 2, page 127)
- (linguistics, phonetics) Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous.
- 2009, Ulrike Gut, Introduction to English Phonetics and Phonology, Bern: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 81:
- It can be seen that vowels have the highest sonority of all phonemes in English, with low vowels being even more sonorous than high vowels.
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