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countable and uncountable, plural sonorities
The property of being sonorous. quotations examples
Another quality that bothers me is Brendel's inconsistent sonority. The treble is hard and pingy; the midrange is weighed down with a booming bass.
1979, High Fidelity Musical America, volume 29, number 2, page 127
(linguistics, phonetics) Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous. quotations examples
It can be seen that vowels have the highest sonority of all phonemes in English, with low vowels being even more sonorous than high vowels.
2009, Ulrike Gut, Introduction to English Phonetics and Phonology, Bern: Peter Lang, page 81