There is also evidence of sonorant devoicing between voiceless obstruents, which affects the realization of pitch accents that fall on devoiced syllables ( see the following section ).
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The other underlying ( or morphophonemic ) palatal is considered a sonorant and has an invariant realization in both fortis ( voiceless ) and lenis ( voiced ) contexts.
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In general, Austronesian words ending in a sonorant correspond to A, and words ending in a stop correspond to D . This accounts for most of the words.
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Albanian also shares two features with Balto-Slavic languages : a lengthening of syllabic consonants before voiced obstruents and a distinct treatment of long syllables ending in a sonorant.
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In the Golin language, h is used in the IPA transcription of the very short high central epenthetic vowel phone, which is restricted to syllables closing with a sonorant.
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The non-sonorant sounds appear to have had voice contrasts, except after nasals, when both voiced and voiceless allophones occurred, with the voiced allophones seemingly more common.
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Proto-Balto-Slavic also possessed sequences of a close vowel, followed by * l, * r, * m or * n : the " sonorant diphthongs ".
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In order for a syllable to be contracted, it must begin with a [ + sonorant ] consonant, that is, a voiced sound with a relatively free passage of air.
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Unlike the other three groups above, it was retained much longer in all dialects, and never developed into a voiceless sonorant in Icelandic, but instead " hardened " to a plosive.
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Trager ( 1944 ) states that the deletion of final after a sonorant and the retention of is in free variation but may be related to speaking speed and syntax although the details are still unknown.
