A Case of the Sonority Conversion: The Less Sonorous Tap than the Lateral and Nasals in Present-Day American English
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The issues this paper addresses are the sonority conversion, which is defined as different ranking of sonority in a certain language, and the case taken from a variety of English. While Rhotic has larger sonority value than Lateral and Nasal in the general ranking, in Present-Day American English the tap, a rhotic, is less sonorous than the lateral and nasals but more sonorous than obstruents. In addition to attested phonological and phonetic nonrhoticity, the sonority-based criteria on the former involve syllabic consonant formation, tautosyllabicity of clusters, segments preceding syllabic consonants and the ban on the sequence of three sonorant consonants and those on the latter the least satisfaction regarding the Syllable Contact Law and the restriction on syllable-final tapping.
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