Development of syllable structure of english language

DEVELOPMENT OF SYLLABLE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CONTENTS:
INRODUCTION
CHAPTER.I. Syllabic Structure of English Language……………………….5

1. 
   The notion of a syllable…………………………………………………..5
   
2. 
   Syllabic structure of English words………………………………………10
   
3. 
   Syllable division in English…………………………………………….16
   

CHAPTER.II. THE PHONETIC ASPECT OF SYLLABLE IN ENGLISH………………………………………………………………………19
2.1. Syllable formation theories. Main problems of the phonetic aspect of syllable in English………………………………………………………………………..19
2.2.The functions of syllables in English……………………………………….28
CONCLUSION
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INTRODUCTION
The syllable is a grouping of segments that typically includes a vowel preceded, and possibly followed, by consonants. All known languages group their segments into syllables of roughly these shapes. Crucially, while the numbers of consonants may vary, at most one vocalic element, or more generally at most one highly prominent element, may occur. Moreover, the CV syllable is present in all languages and is implied by all other syllable types. The syllable has been used as a descriptive tool in the accounts of sound patterns of individual languages. This unit goes far back, having been recognized already by the ancient Sanskrit and Greek grammarians; the word syllable can be traced back to Greek syllabē “that which is held together.” As a unit, the syllable is a purely phonological entity. The grouping of sounds that corresponds to a syllable is undefined at the levels of morphology or syntax. Clear phonetic correlates of the syllable have not yet been established, although extensive experimental work has shed light on its essential properties. The syllable is a recurrent unit, and so are sound sequences associated with it, due to this, the syllable has standardly been considered as essential for characterizing the phonotactics of segments¹.
The syllable as a phonological unit has figured in the foundational works developed within several influential linguistic traditions of the first half of the 20th century. Hockett 1955 and Haugen 1956 propose a ternary syllabic constituency with onset, peak, and coda as its subparts, while Kuryłowicz 1948 and Fudge 1969 propose that the coda and peak be grouped into the rime constituent. Bloomfield 1933 simply proposes to subclassify sequences of segments into those that are syllabic and those that are non-syllabic, while Hjelmslev 1939 proposes to subclassify such sequences into nuclei and margins. Jakobson 1962 proposes an important typology of syllable inventories, with CV as a universal type present in all languages. Trubetzkoy 1939 subclassifies syllables in terms of types of nuclear and moraic segments.