| The notion of syllable is challenged by languages that allow long strings of obstruents without any intervening vowel or sonorant. |
| This suggests that it was not a voiceless sonorant, but retained stronger frication. |
| The sonorant r is voiced and implies the fullness of roundness, resonant-e, and rolling. |
| As a sonorant, lateral approximants are nearly always voiced. |
| In older usage, only the term resonant was used with this meaning, and sonorant was a narrower term, referring to all resonants except vowels and semivowels. |
| In every case of a voiceless sonorant occurring, there is a contrasting voiced sonorant. |
