Question

Why are sonorants (vowels, diphthongs, glides, nasals and liquids) almost always voiced/phonated in the world's languages? (Hint: try making an unvoiced vowel or nasal. What is missing?)

Answer 1

Ans)

-- In the phonology the sonorant is one of the speech sound which is made with non- turbulent flow of air and in the vocal region.This is the way of articulation which is mainly voiced in the worlds languages.The vowels are of course sonorants as are consonants like / l / m- nasals, flap or taps are the major tweets.

-- The sonorant was also known as the resonant and the resonant was mainly used in the older times and the sonorant was the term used to all resonants excluding the vowels and semivowels.

-- The obstruents were mostly voiceless but the sonorants were mainly voiced .A representative sonorant consonant list has been seen in different languages like the 2 nasals/ m / n / two semivowels/ w / j / and two liquids / l / r.

-- The sonority order shows that the sounds which is higher than the fricatives were sonorants. The sonorants have dissimilarity with the obstruents , Which stop or make the turbulence in the airflow.And the coming group involves stops and fricatives.

-- The consonants which are pronounced in the behind of the throat, the contrast between the approximant and one voiced fricative is mostly blur that no language is for contrasting them.so that uvular, pharyngeal and glottal fricatives will not ever contrast with the approximants.

-- English is having the sonorants consonantal phonemes like the l / m / n / w/ j /. And the older irish have major difficult sonorants which has been notes in linguistics, which includes 12 coronal sonorants. The coronal laterals, nasals and the rhotics have a fortis - lenis and also a palatalization variations.

-- The resonants which are voiceless are having a good readiness to have fortition .And also in the speech of North American English the / t / d / are normally flutter .

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