In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant is a speech sound that's produced without turbulent airflow in the vocal tract. Essentially this means a sound that's "squeezed out" (like /z/) or "spat out" (like /t/) isn't a sonorant. For example, vowels are sonorants, as are consonants like /m/ and /l/. Other consonants, like /d/ or /s/, restrict the airflow enough to cause turbulence, and so are non-sonorant. In addition to vowels, phonetic categorizations of sounds that are considered sonorant include… (More on Sonorant)