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Phonology

the principle that sonority rises from the edge of the syllable onset to the nucleus and falls again toward the coda.

In phonology, sonority sequencing principle refers to the principle that sonority rises from the edge of the syllable onset to the nucleus and falls again toward the coda. This meaning comes from Clements (1990) in Papers in Laboratory Phonology.[1]

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coda2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs edge5 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs nucleus4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Clements, G. N. (1990). The role of the sonority cycle in core syllabification. In Papers in Laboratory Phonology (pp. 283-333). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511627736.017

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