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Definition of Sonorant
1. Noun. (phonetics) A speech sound that is produced without turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; the generic term of vowel, approximant, nasal consonant, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sonorant
1. a type of voiced sound [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sonorant
Literary usage of Sonorant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Source Book for the Economic Geography of North America by Charles Carlyle Colby (1921)
"THE STATES OF SINALOA AND NAYARIT (sonorant DESERT)' The American consular district
of Mazatlan, Mexico, comprises the states of Sinaloa and Nayarit, ..."
2. Afrika und Übersee by Carl Meinhof (1845)
"sonorant Obstruent Obstruent (m, n, ny, y, l, r, w, ^ sonorant (b, mb, d, dw,
nd, j, y, h) nj, g, gw, yg, ... (a) Non-Depressor-/Non-sonorant-initial *tupe ..."
3. Neue philologische Rundschau by Carl Wagener, Ernst Ludwig (1899)
"'sonorant' would be a better tonn for sonorant consonant than 'resonant' (p.
141), and 'syllabic' is more correct than 'vocalic' (p. ..."
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