Re: NATLANG: o_0? re: consonant clusters

David Peterson wrote:
>
> I can't remember exactly, but here's the sonority hierarchy (i.e., most
> sonorous to least) as I remember it:
>
> 1.) vowel
> 2.) semi-vowel
> 3.) liquid
> 4.) nasal
> 5.) fricative
> 6.) stop/affricate
>
> And the way you build syllables that are (allegedly) easiest to
> pronounce is that you start the word from the high end, and build as
> you see fit moving down the line, until you get to the vowel, then you
> build up from least to greatest if you want an end consonant cluster.
Actually, that's backwards.  You go from lowest -> highest -> lowest, so
_skald_ is perfectly fine with the hierarchy, but _ksadl_ would violate
it.

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