What is the property of sonorosity?
Sonorosity refers to the quality of a sound that makes it resonate or be rich and full-bodied. In linguistics, it describes the relative loudness or prominence of a sound in relation to other sounds, often used to classify speech sounds based on their inherent acoustic properties. Sounds that are more sonorous, like vowels, tend to be louder and can carry further than less sonorous sounds, such as voiceless consonants. This property is important in phonology for understanding syllable structure and stress patterns in languages.