Anglistics Study Programme EPP Week 8 1 Anglistics

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Anglistics Study Programme Week 8 – Sounds in Contact • Syllable – how long? • Syllaba (-ae, fem. , Latin = taken together) • First syllables – cca. 2800 BC (Sumerian) • A word/a phoneme?

Anglistics Study Programme Week 8 – Sounds in Contact • Number of syllables in words: • Monosyllabic (e. g. fog); • Disyllabic (e. g. table); • Trysillabic (e. g. monument); • Polysyllabic* words (e. g. entertaining)

Anglistics Study Programme Week 8 – Sounds in Contact • Syllable segments: • Nucleus (the centre of a syllable; no air obstruction); commonly a vowel (mono/diphthong), e. g. mine); • Onset (segment preceding the nucleus, e. g. mine); • Coda (segment following the nucleus, e. g. mine)

Anglistics Study Programme Week 8 – Sounds in Contact • Open VS Closed syllables • Syllables ending in a vowel (nucleus) – open • E. g. WHY • Syllables ending in (a) consonant/-s – closed • E. g. LOST

Anglistics Study Programme Week 8 – Sounds in Contact • Syllabification – the process of syllables counting • Strongly depends on intuition • Can a consonant bear a syllable?

Anglistics Study Programme Week 8 – Sounds in Contact • Syllabic consonant • L, e. g. table; • N, e. g. seven; • M, e. g. rhythm; • R*, e. g. history