Sonority hierarchy

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A sonority hierarchy or sonority scale is a hierarchical ranking of speech sounds (phones). Sonority is loosely defined as the loudness of speech sounds relative to other sounds of the same pitch, length and stress, therefore sonority is often related to rankings for phones to their amplitude.

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