SYLLABIC CONSONANT

What is SYLLABIC CONSONANT?

A syllabic consonant is a phonetic element that normally patterns as a consonant, but may fill a vowel slot in a syllable. Form a syllable on its own. Example:
o Bottle : /`btl/ /`btl/ o Student : /`stjudnt/ /`stjudnt/
Definition: SIL International E.g: English Phonetics and Phonology

More examples
Syllabic l:
Cattle: /ktl / Wrestle: /resl/ Bottle: /btl / Muddle: /mdl / Couple: /kpl/ Struggle: /strl / Trouble: /trbl / Muddle: /mdl|/ Panel: /pnl / Kernel: /knl / Parcel: /psl/ Babel: /bebl/ Petal: /petl |/ Papal: /pepl / Ducal: /djukl /

English Phonetics and Phonology; pg. 68

 Syllabic n:
Eaten: /itn/ Happen: /hpn/ Ribbon: /rbn/ Seven: /sevn/ Heaven: /hevn/ Often: /fn/ Broken: /brkn/

Syllabic r:
Hungary: /hri/

Syllabic m :
Happen:/hpn/ Thicken: /kn/
English Phonetics and Phonology; pg. 68

Syllabic and Non-syllabic

Syllabic Non-Syllabic

Coddling : /kdl / Codling: /kdl /

Hungary: /hri / Hungry: /hri/

CLUSTERS OF S WITH PLOSIVE

 Cluster of s with plosives:

S + /p/t/k/

Example: Spill, Still, Skill.

It would be quite reasonable to transcribe them with /b/d/g/ instead. Why? That is because, /b/d/g/ are unaspirated while /p/t/k/ in syllable-initial position are usually aspirated.
English Phonetics and Phonology; pg. 101

 To speak an aspirated consonant, you have to expel air from your lungs as you are pronouncing it. The English stop-consonants p, t, and k are aspirated. An unaspirated consonant does not have this exhalation from the lungs accompanying it. Those same consonants p, t, and k, are unaspirated when they immediately follow an s sound within the syllable (words like spoon, stop or skate). To hear the difference, try this:
Pronounce "I scream." The k-sound in "scream" is unaspirated. Now pronounce "ice cream." The k-sound here is aspirated. Pin & bin. Pronounce it in front of a lighted candle. the one which light flickers is aprirated.