Vowel and consonant:

A vowel is nucleus or central part of syllable. No air obstruction, no

place, no manner. All vowels are phonologically voiced. Vowel has
auditory criteria. A consonant on the other hand is marginal, it can't
be syllable nuclear , air is obstructed, two articulate based on
active or passive, must have manner how air float, or why air float.
Consonant articulatory criteria. For example cease in syllable such
as this word, it can readily be perceived that the middle part of it
provided a fairly free passage of the air whereas it does not have
such a free passage either at the beginning of at the end of the
syllable. The consonant at the end of a syllable the passage of air
is cut down or stopped. The /s/ constricts vocal tract ,and cuts
down the passage through the air stream. The /s/ part of the
syllable called arresting consonant.

A syllable has three phase:-

1- The starting, by chest-pulse , of a small amount of air on its

way out from the lungs.
2- The passage of this air through the vocal tract.
3- The conclusion of the movement of this air (coinciding with
the beginning of another chest-pulse).

A syllable such as {cease} is divided articulatorily into three

segment:- a vowel , the central part and two consonant which are
marginal, one flanking the vowel on each side. A syllable which is
arrested by a consonant is said to be closed syllable, and one
which has no arresting consonant is said to be an open syllable.
{Cease} is closed syllable, whereas {bee} is an open syllable.