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sonorant
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sonorant.
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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.
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In normal speakers, English vowels and oral sonorants are produced primarily with oral resonance and little if any nasal resonance.
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Thus defined, they do not constitute a natural class; (2) "rhotic" is merely a cover term for minimally specified consonantal sonorants (3)--a subset of those that do not fit into the classes of nasals and laterals and so lack any manner specification.
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