Phonology Class SYLLABLE HOW MANY SYLLABLES DO THE

Phonology Class SYLLABLE

HOW MANY SYLLABLES DO THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE? CAR HANDSOME COMPUTER

PARTS OF SYLLABLE BEFORE CENTRE AFTER k æ t Centre has little or no obstruction to airflow and sound loudly Before or after will have greater obstruction to the air flow and less loud sound

PARTS OF SYLLABLE BEFORE CENTRE AFTER æ m Centre has little or no obstruction to airflow and sound loudly Before or after will have greater obstruction to the air flow and less loud sound

PARTS OF SYLLABLE BEFORE CENTRE AFTER n e kst Centre has little or no obstruction to airflow and sound loudly Before or after will have greater obstruction to the air flow and less loud sound

Minimum Syllable A minimum syllable is a single vowel in isolation. For example, the words ‘are’ ɑ: , ‘or’ ɔ: . These are preceded and followed by silence. Isolated sounds such as m, which we sometimes produce to indicate agreement, or ʃ, to ask for silence, must also be regarded as syllables.

ONSET Some syllables have an onset – that is, instead of silence, they have one or more consonants preceding the centre of the syllable: • ‘bar’ bɑ: • ‘key’ ki: • ‘more’ mɔ:

CODA Coda is a syllable which ends with one or more consonants, for instance: • ‘am’ æm • ‘ought’ ɔ: t • ‘ease’ i: z

ONSET & C O D A Some syllables also have onset and coda. Look at the following words: • ‘ran’ ræn • ‘sat’ sæt • ‘cat’ kæt

THE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH SYLLABLE

PRE – INITIAL & INITIAL Two-consonant cluster is consisted of pre-initial and initial consonant. ‘s’ is the pre-initial consonant that is followed by initial consonant. A word ‘smoke’ /sməƱk/ is the example of ‘s’ as the pre-initial and ‘m’ as an initial consonant following the ‘s’.

INITIAL & POST-INITIAL The sets of consonants ‘l, r, w, j’ function as postinitial consonant. Look at the following examples: • ‘play’ pleɪ • ‘try’ traɪ • ‘quick’ kwɪk • ‘few’ fju: The first consonant is initial and the second one is post-initial consonant.

PRE- INITIAL, INITIAL & POST-INITIAL Three-consonant cluster also exists in English such as the following words: • ‘split’ splɪt (s= pre-initial; p=initial; l= post-initial) • ‘square’ skweə (s=pre-initial; k=initial; w=postinitial)

PRE-FINAL, & POST-FINAL • The pre-final consonants form a small set such as: m, n, ŋ, l, s. • The final consonants form almost all of the consonants except h, w, and j. • The post-final consonants form a small set such as: s, z, t, d, θ

PRE-FINAL PLUS FINAL, PLUS POST-FINAL

FINAL PLUS POST-FINAL 1 PLUS POST-FINAL 2

PRE-FINAL PLUS POST -FINAL 1 PLUS POST-FINAL 2

FINAL PLUS POST-FINAL 1 PLUS POST-FINAL 2 PLUS POST-FINAL 3