sentences:  All sonorants (liquids and nasals ) devoice when following a voiceless obstruent, and they are syllabic when following a consonant at the end of a word.The pronunciation of vowels varies a great deal between dialects and is one of the most detectable aspects of a speaker's accent.The table below lists the vowel phonemes in Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA), with examples of words in which they occur from lexical sets compiled by linguists.