Syllable theories

clear [l] appears in onset position, and dark [l] in the coda.

• In fact, this process does not only provide evidence for the contrast
• between onset and coda position, but for the superordinate rhyme constituents which consists of the nucleus plus the optional coda.
• In cases of consonant syllabification, where /l/ (or another sonorant consonant)comes to play the role of a vowel and therefore occupies the nuclear position, as in bottle, little,
• Examples :lip ,holly ,

• English have two main allophones of /l/ clear or alveolar [l] and dark,
• velarised [l], in complementary distribution.

Onset Maximalism

• Onset Maximalism tells us that, in a word like leader, the medial /d/ belong to the second syllable, where it can be located in the onset as in /l/ second syllable onset clear

• Two realization of /r/
• red, bread, very------- onset realization
• Car, park, farm----------coda……….no realization

Onset Maximalism

• Morphemes
• Star
• -y
• Syllable
• Sta.rry
• It also follows that syllable boundaries will not always coincide with
• morpheme boundaries

• Car keys consonant………No /r/
• /
• Car engine vowel…………… /r/
• Delete the /r/ before a consonant or pause.
• [ɹ] is being inserted before vowels in mental lexicon.

Onset Maximalism Ambisyllabic

• Bottle A single short vowel cannot make up the rhyme of a stressed syllable.the first syllable clearly need coda . The /t/ of bottle
• as ambisyllabic: that is, as belonging simultaneously in both the coda of
• the first syllable, and the onset of the second.

• In alliterative poetry, the important constituent is the onset,
• which must be identical in several words in a single line
• On the bald street breaks the blank day
• Alliterative sound appears in word intial on set

Alliterative poetry,

• The rhyme of the syllable determines poetic rhyme: for a perfect rhyme, the nucleus and coda . That is, meet rhymes
• with eat, and with beat, and with sweet; but it does not rhyme with might.

• Close--------------coda bet, beat
• Open-------------nucleus bee, beast
• Light------------(no coda,short vowel) p o tato,re port, a bout ,a,to.
• Heavy-----------complex rhyme
• (Coda or more codas) bet,best,noun verb