2 results for: Sonorant

so·no·rant

Audio Help [suh-nawr-uh

nt, -nohr-, soh-] Pronunciation Key Phonetics

–noun

1.	a voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w).

2.	a speech sound characterized by relatively free air passage through some channel, as a vowel, semivowel, liquid, or nasal. Compare obstruent.

–adjective

3.	of, pertaining to, or having the properties of a sonorant.

[Origin: < L sonōr- (s. of sonor) sound, noise + -ant; see sonorous

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