noun🔗ShareA speech sound that is produced without turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; the generic term of vowel, approximant, nasal consonant, etc."In English phonetics class, the students learned that vowels, nasal consonants like "m" and "n," and approximants like "w" and "r" are all categorized as sonorants because they are produced with relatively free airflow. "phoneticslinguisticslanguagesoundChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
