In tonal languages, these constituents in phrase-final positions frequently become privileged contour tone licensers due to their length.
In tonal languages, these constituents in phrase-final positions frequently become privileged contour tone licensers due to their length. The weight categorization and rhyming domains of these constituents has prompted Donca Steriade's argument for their conceptual replacement by "vowel-to-vowel intervals", though the current explanations for glottalization and aspiration in English rely on these constituents as the basic phonological structure. These constituents are optionally constructed with codas and onsets, though they are theoretically always centered on a nucleus, or sonority peak, which may be a nasal, liquid, approximant, or another component. For 10 points, name this prosodic and phonological unit, which most often consists of a vowel, plus any other consonantal segments.
In tonal languages, these constituents in phrase-final positions frequently become privileged contour tone licensers due to their length.
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