Final Assessment Questions on “Theoretical phonetics” Card-1 Connection of Phonetics with Other Sciences

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   The Syllable Structure of English.
   

A syllable is a group of one or more sounds. The essential part of a syllable is a vowel sound (V) which may be preceded and/or followed by a consonant (C) or a cluster of consonants (CC or CCC) (see below). Some syllables consist of just one vowel sound (V) as in I and eye/aI/, owe/ə/. In English, a syllable can consist of a vowel preceded by one consonant (CV) as in pie/paI/, or by two consonants (CCV) as in try/traI/, or by three consonants (CCCV) as in spry/spraI/. The vowel of the syllable may also be followed by one consonant (VC) as in at/æt/, or by two consonants (VCC) as in its/Its/, or by three consonants (CVCCC) as in text/tekst/or by four consonants (CVCCCC) as in texts/teksts/.What is syllable structure? Syllables are units within words, and they also have an inner structure of their own. Every syllable has a nucleus, which is the most sonorous part of the syllable: a vowel or another sonorous sound. If there are consonants, which are less sonorous, they make up the onset and coda of the syllable. Our mental grammar doesn’t just organize words into syllables, but it also structures what’s inside a syllable. Let’s take a look. The name for the most sonorous part of a syllable is the nucleus. In a typical syllable, the nucleus will be a vowel, produced with an unobstructed vocal tract. The segments that come before the nucleus are called the onset, and if there are any segments after the nucleus they’re called the coda. The nucleus and coda together form a unit that we call the rhyme, and linguists like to use the Greek letter sigma (σ) to label the entire syllable.
Syllable definition: A syllable is a unit of sound that creates meaning in language. Consonants join vowels to create syllables. What is a Syllable? A syllable is one unit of sound in English. Syllables join consonants and vowels to form words.
Syllables can have more than one letter; however, a syllable cannot have more than one sound.
Syllables can have more than one consonant and more than one vowel, as well. However, the consonant(s) and vowel(s) that create the syllable cannot make more than one sound. A syllable is only one sound. Examples of Syllables in English
Syllables are formed when a vowel pairs with a consonant to create a unit of sound.
Some words have one syllable (monosyllabic), and some words have many syllables (polysyllabic). There are two ways that syllables formed in English words: open and closed syllables. Here is a brief discussion of both of those topics. What is an open syllable? An open syllable is a syllable that has only one vowel and only one vowel sound. The single vowel in the open syllable occurs at the end of the word.
Examples of Open Syllables: wry, try, no, go, a, chew, brew
What is a closed syllable? A closed syllable is a syllable that has only one vowel and only one vowel sound. A closed syllable ends in a consonant.
Examples of Closed Syllables: Clock, truck, ask, bin, trim, gym, neck, if

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