Sonorant

In phonology, a sonorant or sonorant is ( sonant ) a vowel or a consonant, no turbulence in the air stream produced during its formation behind the constriction. The manner of articulation of the sonorant consonants Protestant is so unlike that of obstruents. You are close to the vowels and are like the vowels acoustically understood as sounds. Due to their definition they are always voiced.

Sonorantische consonants are distinguished in phonation by the fact that in the vocal tract, no pressure is produced which would be solved by a closure or by friction. As with the vowels of Phonationsstrom is not hindered, so that they can be syllabic, as well as vowels. In sonorants the glottis is arranged so that spontaneous phonation is possible.

Hall ( 2000: 105). " ... Sonorantische consonants, vowels and glides ... " is determined as sonorants to sonorants in English are accordingly ( in addition to the vowels ) the nasal phonemes / m /, / n /, / ŋ /, the lateral phoneme / l /, the Vibrant / r / and the approximants / j / and / w / ( glides ).