Syllables

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Syllables
If phones are the smallest units of measurement in speech production, syllables are what follows them. Essentially a syllable is a vowel with optional consonants clustered around it. The vowel forms the so-called nucleus of the syllable, while any consonants coming after the vowel are referred to as the coda. Depending on whether the nucleus is followed by a coda or not, we describe the syllable as either closed or open.
The example below shows how syllable structure can be accurately described:
word: map (phonetically [mæp])
syllable structure: CVC
The word map has one syllable. It consists of the consonant [m], followed by the vowel [æ] and ends with the consonant [p] – therefore it has the syllable structure CVC. This is an example for a closed syllable (the vowel nucleus is followed by a consonant coda).
By contrast, the following example is an open syllable and does not have a coda:
you (phonetically [yu])
CV
Remember that the letter y may represent a consonant (as in this example) or a vowel, as in happy. Don’t be fooled by the strange spelling conventions of English!
Consonant Clusters
Several consonants can stack at the beginning or end of a syllable, forming a so-called consonant cluster. The following example demonstrates this:
nests
CVCCC
In English, a maximum of three consonants can stack at the beginning of a syllable, while a maximum of four consonants can succeed the nucleus, leading to this phonotactic description of syllable structure:
(CCC)V(CCCC)
Here are a few more examples for better illustration:
splice
CCCVC
monosyllabic
(one syllable), closed
easy
VCV
disyllabic (two syllables), open
axe
VCC
monosyllabic (one syllable), closed
ex-pla-na-tion
VCC CCV CV CVC
polysyllabic (four syllables), syllables are closed-open-open-closed

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