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CHAPTER 5 {|
 * (1)||ma|||a
 * ||tɛ|||ɛ
 * ||thí|||í
 * ||khy|||y
 * ||lɛ|||ɛw
 * ka
 * at
 * ||tha|||an
 * (2)||klu|||aŋ
 * ||klu|||aj
 * ||khry|||aŋ
 * ||khu|||ap
 * (3)||khu|||j
 * ||khu|||n
 * ||kha|||w
 * }
 * (2)||klu|||aŋ
 * ||klu|||aj
 * ||khry|||aŋ
 * ||khu|||ap
 * (3)||khu|||j
 * ||khu|||n
 * ||kha|||w
 * }
 * (3)||khu|||j
 * ||khu|||n
 * ||kha|||w
 * }
 * ||kha|||w
 * }
 * }

Notice that unless there is a vowel in the second half of the syllable, a sonorant (,, , , carries tone just the way a second vowel does. It also occupies about as much time, so that a sonorant after a single vowel sounds stronger and longer than after a double vowel (Noss, p. 9: Yates and Tryon.p.xxxiii). Notice also that two sonorant consonants cannot occur together. This is why Thais who find it easy to approximate the pronunciation of English ,  and  may still tend to say  when they mean.

13. A one—mora syllable in Thai therefore cannot end with a sonorant consonant. It consists of a single short vowel, which may be preceded by consonants and may be followed by a non-sonorant consonant (,, or glottal stop and in loan words , ).