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The image displays a graph illustrating linguistic sonority profiles. The vertical axis on the left is labeled "Increasing Sonority" with text running vertically from bottom to top and an arrow pointing upward at the very top, indicating that higher points on the graph represent greater sonority. The horizontal axis at the bottom divides the chart into three sections labeled from left to right: "Onset," "Nucleus," and "Coda."

There are two distinct lines plotted on this graph.

First, there is a solid red line connecting five specific data points marked by red letters. Starting from the far left under the "Onset" section, the line begins at a relatively high point labeled **J**. It then drops sharply to its lowest point, labeled **k**, which sits just above the word "Onset." From this low point, the line rises steeply to reach the graph's highest peak, labeled **i** (which has a dot over it), aligning directly above the word "Nucleus." After the peak, the line descends to a point labeled **z**. Finally, from **z**, the line rises slightly to end at a point labeled **m** under the "Coda" section.

Second, there is a black dotted line that forms a large triangle shape. It starts low on the left side (under Onset), rises steadily to meet the red line's peak at **i**, and then descends steadily from the peak down towards the right side (under Coda), ending lower than where it began. This dotted line appears to represent an idealized or theoretical trajectory, while the solid red line shows a specific variation of that path.
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