Glossary term S

Sonority Scale

Also known as The scale of consonantal strength

The sonority scale is a list of phonetic segments showing the relative resonance of phonetic segments in relation to other segments.

Sonority is the resonance of a sound in relation to other sounds. A sonority scale shows the sonority of a sound in relation to other sounds.

Here is a diagram that shows the relative sonority of different phones: 

  1. Burquest and Payne 1993, 101
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