English Syllable Agnieszka Tuszyska Outline n Two representations
English Syllable Agnieszka Tuszyńska
Outline n Two representations of the English three consonant onset – Tree representation – Table of transitions n n n Conclusions about English CCCV Other types of English syllable onsets English syllable codas
Tree representation of English CCCV onsets l V 1 t s 2 k 31 32 33 r l 42 33 43 V 3 44 V 4 r 45 C 1 34 V 2 e I r p 1 41 w 46 j 47 V 5 V 6 5
s p t k C 1 l r r l r w j V 1 V 2 V 3 e I V 4 V 5 V 6 p, t, k I, e, Q, , I, e, , i: , , u: , U , , , i: , E , i: , E: , e. I, e e I 2 31 32 33 34 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 5 5 5 5 e : c A A v 1 2 2 31 31 32 33 33 33 34 41 42 43 @44 45 46 47 meaning : c through e : c to Av Av Av from
Conclusions about three consonant syllable onsets. n n n In English only /s/ can occur as the first element of CCC clusters, whereas in Polish : /p. St. Sowa / In English a limited number of sounds occurring as second elements; only three fortis stops / p, t, k / small number of possible third elements / l, r, j, w / /spw/, /stl/, and /stw/ never occur in initial CCCV, whereas in Polish : /spwavits’/, /stlits’/, /stwot. SIts’/ there is a single example of the initial sequence /smj/ in the word “smew” three is the biggest number of consonants in an English syllable onset, whereas in Polish: /strfonits’/
Other types of English syllable onsets n n n /N/ never occurs initially; it is the same in Polish /hw/ never occurs in initial CCV, whereas in Polish : /hwopiets/, /hweptats’/ /sp/ is the only cluster occurring before all vowels in initial CCV
English syllable codas n n /r, h, j, w/ do not occur in final VC only /d/ occurs after all vowels in final VC only /dz/ occurs after all vowels in final VCC the biggest number of consonants in a syllable coda is 3, whereas in Polish : /nastempstf/
Vowels in English syllables n n there are ten vowels that can constitute monosyllabic words: /i: /, /@/, /A: /, /o: /, /3: /, /e. I/, /a. I/, /@U/, /I@/, /e@/; Polish also has vowels that constitute monosyllabic words like “a”, “o”, “i” all vowels except /U/ and /U@/ can occur initially in a syllable all vowels except /e, {, V, Q/ occur finally in a syllable, whereas in Polish: all vowels can occur finally in a syllable.
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