Universal 626:
- Original
- Sonority Hierarchy: liquids > glides > nasals > fricatives > stops
- Standardized
- Sonority Hierarchy: vowels > liquids > glides > nasals > fricatives > stops
- Keywords
- sonority hierarchy
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implicational hierarchy
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages in Hankamer & Aissen 1974
- Source
- Hankamer & Aissen 1974: 138
- Counterexamples
*Hankamer and Aissen 1974: 138 note: The scale is universal but every language places its segment types along the hierarchy at points determined by the language-particular features of articulation. There is a language-particular, rather than universal determination of natural classes in the liquid-glide region of the sonority scale.Extensively discussed ever since. The main purpose of the sonority hierarchy is to define permissible/preferred syllable shapes, with sonority steadily rising from onset to peak and steadily falling from peak to coda.