SONORANT Definition & Meaning

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sonorant

[ suh-nawr-uhnt, -nohr-, soh- ]

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noun

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

adjective

of, relating to, or having the properties of a sonorant.

sonorant

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noun

one of the frictionless continuants or nasals (l, r, m, n, ŋ ) having consonantal or vocalic functions depending on its situation within the syllable
either of the two consonants represented in English orthography by w or y and regarded as either consonantal or vocalic articulations of the vowels ��ː and ��ː

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of sonorant¹

< Latin ��ǲ�ō��- (stem of sonor ) sound, noise + -ant; sonorous

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of sonorant¹

from Latin sonor a noise + -ant

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Mallinckrodt announced in April that it plans to change its name to Sonorant Therapeutics, spinning off ‘Mallinckrodt Inc.’ as a separate company for its generics business.

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