Lauren: As with every year at our anniversary in particular, we’re asking you to help us connect with people who would be totally interested in a linguistics podcast if only they knew lingthusiasm existed. Most people still find podcasts through word of mouth, and a lot of people don’t yet realise they could be having a fun linguistics chat in their ears every month – or in their eyes because all our episodes also have transcripts. Of course, we welcome this all year round as well.
There’s still another week to do that within our anniversary month. Thank you to everybody who has already shared a link to your favourite episode or just your excitement about Lingthusiasm in honour of our anniversary. Gretchen: It’s a nice round number for another nice round number. We’re so excited to hit our 50th episode of main Lingthusiasm episodes in our anniversary month. Those couple of extra episodes that we launched with explain why it’s not something divisible by 12. We launched with three episodes in December 2016, but we celebrate the anniversary in November because we were recording them in advance. Lauren: Happy Anniversary, Gretchen! It’s been four years of Lingthusiasm. But first, Happy Anniversary Lingthusiasm Month. Today, we’re getting enthusiastic about sonority. Gretchen: Welcome to Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics! I’m Gretchen McCulloch. Links to studies mentioned and further reading can be found on the Episode 50 show notes page. Listen to the episode here or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s been lightly edited for readability. 283-333.This is a transcript for Lingthusiasm Episode 50: Climbing the sonority mountain from A to P.
Beckman (eds.) Papers in Laboratory Phonology I: Between the grammar and the physics of speech. The role of the sonority cycle in core syllabification. In Aronoff & Oehrle (eds.) Language Sound Structure: Studies in Phonology. On the major class features and syllable theory. 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). The Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) is a phonotactic principle that aims to outline the structure of a syllable in terms of sonority.
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