Universal #629
Legacy number: 629
| Number | 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 |
Discussion
Notes
*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.
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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.