Long vowels are rarely followed by a sonorant in the same syllable.

Partial to full devoicing of the sonorant is probably the norm for most speakers.

The inserted stop is homorganic with the sonorant, which means it has the same place of articulation.

An epenthetic stop occurs between a nasal and a continuant or sonorant.

This includes the so called "mixed diphthongs", composed of a short vowel followed by a sonorant.

Then, beginning from the right hand side of the word, a sonorant in any one of the following situations is changed to consonantal:

The weakening causes voicing as well as the fall from a stop to a fricative and finally to a sonorant.

The voiceless sonorant often marks object incorporation.

A moraic coda is a non-glottalized sonorant.

Before a sonorant.

In this case, the word sonorant may be restricted to non-vocoid resonants; that is, all of the above except vowels and semivowels.

Aspirated stops followed by a sonorant have a voice onset time greater than this amount, called a positive VOT.

Compare sonorant (or resonant), which includes approximants, rhotics, and nasals but not fricatives.

Note that this means implosives are phonetically sonorants (i.e. not obstruents) as the concept of sonorant is usually defined.

The notion of syllable is challenged by languages that allow long strings of consonants without any intervening vowel or sonorant.

So, for example, the medial consonant in the word "pillow" is the alveolar lateral sonorant [l].

However, it does not interact with unvoiced consonants in clusters as a fricative would, and so is considered to be a sonorant (approximant) phonologically.

Vyañjana means embellishment, i.e., consonants are treated as embellishment for the vowels to make a language sonorant.

This originally involved reduplicating a cluster consisting of a laryngeal and sonorant; hence h₃l h₃leh₃l olōl with normal Greek development of laryngeals.

We shall see repeatedly in what follows that polysyllables are particularly resistant to change and that a following sonorant + voiceless obstruent is also relatively resistant.

When syllable-coda clusters occur, CC tends to become CVC in some speakers especially if the first consonant is not a sonorant.

Consonant clusters consisting of a sonorant and a stop or a sonorant and a fricative are tolerated in word final environment alone.

Prenasalized consonants are phonetic sequences of a nasal and an obstruent (or a non-nasal sonorant) that behave phonologically like single consonants.

In the consonant system there have also been notable changes, for example the desonorization of plosives, the rise of a correlative sonorant for nasals and liquids and preaspiration.

All accounts agree that some property of the fortis sonorant is being transferred to the preceding vowel, but the details about what property that is vary from researcher to researcher.