Gimson's pronunciation of english part 6. Bài tập luyện ngữ pháp tiếng anh cho mọi người, đây là tài liệu hay và hữu ích có thể giúp các bạn có thể nắm vững được các ngữ pháp tiếng anh cụ thể. | 48 Language and Speech of the Semitic group remains syllabic In this sense. The general notion that the exists a unit known as the syllabic has led to many attempts in recent times define the term. The best-known approach is that which used to be called a th ory of prominence 1 but is nowadays better known as the sonority hierarchy. The Sonority Hierarchy In any utterance some sounds stand out as more prominent or sonorous th others . they are felt by listeners to be more sonorous than their neighbou Another way of judging the sonority of a sound is to imagine its carrying powt A vowel like a dearly has more carrying power than a consonant like z whi in turn has more carrying power than a b . Indeed the last sound a plosive t virtually no sonority at all unless followed by a vowel. A sonority scale or hi archy can be set up which represents the relative sonority of various classes sound while there is some argument over some of the details of such a hierard the main elements are not disputed. One version of the hierarchy is as folio1 the most sonorous classes are at the top of the scale open vowels close vowels glides liquids l r nasals fricatives affricates plosives Intermediate vowels are appropriately placed between open and close. Wit the last three categories voiced sounds arc more sonorous than voiceless soun We have not previously used the terms glide and liquid . This Is a subdivisl of the class approximant see glides arc short movements away frt a vowel-like position e g. English J w while liquid covers sounds like Engl. l r which have narrowing without friction but are not relatable to vov sounds. Trills and flaps arc usually included with liquids although this is n agreed by all it fits well enough for English since trilled r and flapped r a variants of the usual approximant i of RP . Using the sonority hierarchy we can then draw a contour representing t varying prominences of an utterance . m n if c s to The number of syllables in
