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Article #39Re: What is a syllable?
From: David James Hahn
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 15:14
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 15:14
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From article <Bwz1H0.33B@nic.umass.edu>, by zgilbert@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Zvi Gilbert): > JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes: > > This is one of those facts about syllabification in English and many other > languages; /s/ can do many things that are not permitted to any other > consonants. It violates the sonority hierarchy all the time, in words like > "extra" and "straw" (three sonority peaks, but clearly only two syllables)... > Some consider these to be one sound, i.e. /st/ or /sp/, and some say that they are extrasyllabic, thus not part of the delinquent sonority peaks. These plateaus and peaks just may be exceptions, as there are relatively few language wide. (Consider English, lots of words that violates the sonority hierarchy, but actually only a couple of combinations that do this.) I think that these are both wishy washy answers. Then again I don't have a better answer. -- David Hahn University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee hahn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!hahn From: hahn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David James Hahn) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: What is a syllable? Date: 31 Oct 1992 15:14:05 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1cu7rtINN8t4@uwm.edu> References: <Bwz1H0.33B@nic.umass.edu> Reply-To: hahn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4 Originator: hahn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu