Sonority

Definitions

1. The property of being sonorous.
   countable, uncountable
2. Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Another quality that bothers me is Brendel's inconsistent sonority. The treble is hard and pingy; the midrange is weighed down with a booming bass.”

“It can be seen that vowels have⟳ the highest sonority of all phonemes in English, with low vowels being even more sonorous than high vowels.”

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