sonority
IPA: sʌnˈɔrʌti
noun
- The property of being sonorous.
- (linguistics, phonetics) Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous.
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Examples of "sonority" in Sentences
- The sonority of sound is loud.
- Composition is all about sonority.
- Also, this scale is not the sonority hierarchy.
- In the sonority hierarchy, all sounds higher than fricatives are sonorants.
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