Explore: Sonorants (phonetics)

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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Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants). Speech sounds can be described as either

lack of plosion, nasal plosion, partial devoicing of sonorants, complete devoicing of sonorants, partial devoicing of obstruents, lengthening and shortening

Obstruents contrast with sonorants, which have no such obstruction and so resonate. All obstruents are consonants, but sonorants include vowels as well

The field of articulatory phonetics is a subfield of phonetics that studies articulation and ways that humans produce speech. Articulatory phoneticians

[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonetics, aspiration is a strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release

and does not indicate an ejective.) Other ejective sonorants are not known to occur. When sonorants are transcribed with an apostrophe in the literature

a voiced consonant, except breathy-voiced [ɦ]. In the other rows (the sonorants), the single letter represents a voiced consonant. While IPA provides

 moist), initially used by grammarian Dionysius Thrax to describe Greek sonorants. Liquid consonants are more prone to be part of consonant clusters and