Syllable theories

Trisyllable

• It is for a word of three syllables;
• Beautiful
• Terrible
• Horrible
• carefully

Polysyllable

• which may refer either to a word of more than three syllables or to any word of more than one syllable.
• Polysyllable
• Trisyllable

Phonology of syllable

Constitution of the syllable

• Syllable structure
• Syllabic consonant
• Phonotactic Constraint
• The sonority sequencing generalization
• Aspiration
• Dark and clear /l/
• Onset Maximalism
• Realization of /r/
• Ambisyllable
• Alliteration
• Syllable weight

The internal structure of the syllable

• The universal syllable template accepted by most phonologists is
• syllable
• Onset rhyme
• Consonant
• nucleus coda
• vowel consonant

Syllabic consonants

• A consonant stands as the peak of the syllable instead of the vowel, and we count these as weak syllables like the vowel examples given earlier.
• A consonant is syllabic by means of a small vertical mark (I) beneath the symbol, for example ‘cattle’ /kætl/, bottle, eaten, threatening .

Cross Languages Analysis

• English …..an onset
• ………….coda
• …………….both
• Arabic …………… no onset
• Hawaiian …………no coda
• All languages…………..c v

• Even languages like English, which allow both onsets and codas, have
• restrictions on the permissible contents of those slots: these restrictions are known as phonotactic constraints

Phonotactic Constraints

• Onset
• In a CCC onset, C1 must be /s/.
• /ŋ/ does not appear in onsets.
• /v d z / do not form part of onset clusters.
• /t d θ/ plus /l/ do not form permissible onset clusters.
• coda
• /h/ does not appear in codas.
• Coda clusters of nasal plus oral stop are only acceptable if the twostops share the same place of articulation.
• /lg/ is not a permissible coda cluster