LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pipili, Blackboard, Wisdom Tooth
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Syllables are suprasegmental (above the segment) units. Syllables - examples in the slides. (slide 20) Obligatory, usually vowel (or syllabic liquid or nasal) Rhyme: a constituent consisting of nucleus and coda. -- little period is a syllable boundary. Sonority must rise before the nucleus and fall after the nucleus. Vowels are the most sonorous sounds, so syllables usually require a vowel as their nucleus. English does not allow stop + nasal in an onset. Nasal + stop is ok in a coda (slide 37) Twi: a word may end only in a vowel or a nasal. Up to 3 consonants in the onset in english. The first one always has to be s , the second one is /p,t,k/ and the third one is /l,r,w,j/ But (stl) and stlick is not possible. The nucleus is the only obligatory constituent of a syllable. Universal syllable shape constraints require onsets to be as large as possible.
