Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
sonorant .
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Examples
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And the Old English gemination you bring up is part of a pattern where gemination occurs before a variety of sonorants, which are not necessarily lost in the process ("apple" etc.) so I do not find necessary to consider it a case of compensatory lengthening (also briefly covered under the previous article).
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All those soft sonorants collapsing into weak vowels.
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Tropylium: "And the Old English gemination you bring up is part of a pattern where gemination occurs before a variety of sonorants, which are not necessarily lost in the process "apple" etc.
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