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sonorant.
See voiced.


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This latter type of lengthening historically targeted the sonorant in sonorant plus obstruent clusters in Livonian (Kettunen 1938), but is absent in Ingrian, which instead lengthens the obstruent, e.
Scotland will rebuild Hadrian's Wall to keep the Sassenachs from mounting a new invasion and the Welsh will just speak Welsh in every pub in Wales and drive out unwanted newcomers with incomprehensible vowels and voiceless sonorants.
In normal speakers, English vowels and oral sonorants are produced primarily with oral resonance and little if any nasal resonance.
 
 
 
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