Modern Hebrew is an example of such language. Some languages allow a sonority "plateau" that is, two adjacent tautosyllabic consonants with the same sonority level. Some languages possess syllables that violate the SSP (Russian and English, for example) while other languages strictly adhere to it, even requiring larger intervals on the sonority scale: In Italian for example, a syllable-initial stop must be followed by either a liquid, a glide or a vowel, but not by a fricative (except: borrowed words like: pseudonimo, psicologia). The sonority values of segments are determined by a sonority hierarchy.Ī good example for the SSP in English is the one-syllable word "trust": The first consonant in the syllable onset is t, which is a stop, the lowest on the sonority scale next is r, a liquid which is more sonorous, then we have the vowel u /ʌ/ - the sonority peak next, in the syllable coda, is s, a fricative, and last is another stop, t. The SSP states that the center of a syllable, namely the syllable nucleus, often a vowel, constitutes a sonority peak that is preceded and/or followed by a sequence of segments-consonants-with progressively decreasing sonority values (i.e., the sonority has to fall toward both edges of the syllable). Gierut (1999), to acquisition of word-initial 3-element clusters by children with functional phonological delays (ages in years months: 3 4 to 6 3). A standard observation of phonological typology is the principle. The Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) is a phonotactic principle that aims to outline the structure of a syllable in terms of sonority. This study extends the application of the Sonority Sequencing Principle, as reported in J. Keywords: sonority sequencing, phonotactic learning, computational modeling.
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