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Article #85Re: What is a syllable?
From: Henry Churchyard
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 05:32
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 05:32
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In article <1374@tdat.teradata.COM>, news@tdat.teradata.COM (news) writes:
> In Hebrew schwa's are often (always?) treated as extra-syallabic.
> [That is they do not count to the syllable count).
Actually, this is not the common usage of `extrasyllabic' as a
technical term in recent generative phonology. We use `extrasyllabic'
to refer to a word-edge consonant which can be formally unsyllabified,
but is not thereby subect to `repair strategies' (such as deletion of
the consonant, or epenthesis of an adjacent vowel). A Hebrew syllable
which contains schwa (including _h.atef_ vowels) is prosodically
weaker than a syllable which contains an unreduced vowel.
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--Henry Churchyard churchh@emx.cc.utexas.edu
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