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Ority hierarchy and sonority sequencing, with particular attention to the First we review the literature on sonority, the son. Their combinatory properties within complex syllable constituents, and In such cases, evidence about their sonority can be drawn from Netics, as the nasal segment can be realised as a plain nasal in both posi. This distinction need not be reflected in the pho. That is, nasalsĬould manifest low-sonority properties in the onset and high-sonority The sonority of a nasal may be determined by its position. In the syllable, it is realised as plain nasalvs.prenasalised stop, or as plain This work is part of the research carried out in the project SALT (Syllable Structure: its Acquisition, Loss, Typology), funded by the Research Council of Norway (project number 262745). * E-mail: DZ 17 are grateful to Abby Cohn, Stuart Davis, Chris Golston, Gaja Jarosz, Steve Parker, Sam Tilsen and Christian U ff mann, as well as the members of the CASTL-FISH group and the USC phonetics and phonology group, various audi- ences at the CUNY Phonology Forum, the Manchester Phonology Meeting and the OCP, two anonymous reviewers, the associate editor and the editors for invaluable feedback and comments. Language may display a contrast between the two types, in which case Ority nasals in syllable onsets and high-sonority nasals in rhymes, or the Types are found they may be in complementary distribution, with low-son. Languages allow either both types or just one if both

We find compelling evidence that thereĪre actually two types of nasals, LOW- SONORITY NASALS and HIGH.

Wisdom that nasals occupy a relatively low position on the hierarchy,īetween obstruents and liquids. Investigate the behaviour of nasal consonants in syllable phonotactics inĪ survey of over 200 languages. The basic order of major segment classes in the sonority hierarchy has beenīy and large unchallenged since Sievers (1881: 157). We propose that these two types of nasals di ff er in the presence or absence of a value for the feature. Instead, we propose that there are two types of nasal consonants, one group with lower sonor- ity than liquids and one with higher sonority. Our fi ndings challenge the common classi fi cation of nasals as inter- mediate between obstruents and liquids on the sonority hierarchy. We investigate the phonotactic behaviour of nasal consonants in a database of over 200 languages. Nasal consonants, sonority and syllable phonotactics: the dual nasal hypothesis*