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Universal 1695:
- Original
- Universal Hierarchy of Consonantal Strength:
voiceless plosives > voiced stops > voiceless fricatives > voiced fricatives > nasals > lateral liquids (l-sounds) > central liquids (r-sounds) > high vowels > mid vowels > low vowels.
- Standardized
- Universal Hierarchy of Consonantal Strength:
voiceless plosives > voiced stops > voiceless fricatives > voiced fricatives > nasals > lateral liquids (l-sounds) > central liquids (r-sounds) > high vowels > mid vowels > low vowels.
- Keywords
- consonant, strength, sonority
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implicational hierarchy
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages mentioned in Vennemann 1988, with special reference to German, Germanic, Italian, and Latin
- Source
- Vennemann 1988: 9
- Counterexamples
a version of the sonority hierarchy, relevant for all kinds of purposes, including phonotactics.