The Syllable in English and Arabic: a contrastive Study

2.3 The Structure of the Syllable 
According to Hassaan (1998: 73), syllable structure constitutes the 
component of phonological word division focused on pronounceable 
segments of words and how they are composed, divided, and distributed. 
Syllable structure is also a subdivision of phonotactics, or the rules of sound 
distribution, the specific sequences of sounds that occur in a language. 
Moreover, the study of syllables in Arabic involves the analysis of lexical 
stress. In Arabic, the syllable is perceived as a unit per language, i.e., each 
language has its own sequences of consonants and vowels besides other 
features like length, stress, and intonation (ibid.). 
 
2.4 Analysis of Syllable Structure 
Abdo (1970: 129) as well as other Arab linguists like Al-Ani (1983: 13), 
Hassaan (1990: 173), and Anis (1995: 164) adopt the idea that the syllable is 
an ordered symmetry of analytic molecules and that there are six types of 
syllables as follows: short closed, short open, mid-closed, mid-open, long 
closed, and long double-closed. Al-Ani (1983: 131) seems to rely on the way 
British linguists handled the term syllable in that it has a prominent part 

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رتمؤلما عئاقو
ينلعلا
لولاا
وولعلل
ةيىاشىلاا
يضاترفلاا
ةعمالجا /ةيساسلاا ةيبترلا ةيلك /
ٌواعتلابو ةيرصيتشلما
عم
ةعماج /ةيساسلاا ةيبترلا ةيلك
راق يذ
02
- 
02
ٌاريزح
0202
و
( راعش تتح
ًكنتيل..... هلعتى
)
رتمؤلما عئاقو
ينلعلا
لولاا
وولعلل
ةيىاشىلاا
يضاترفلاا
/
ةيرصيتشلما ةعمالجا /ةيساسلاا ةيبترلا ةيلك
عم ٌواعتلابو
ةعماج /ةيساسلاا ةيبترلا ةيلك
راق يذ