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    This document discusses the structure of syllables in language. It notes that the most common type of syllable in English has a consonant followed by a vowel, represented as CV. A syllable contains an onset, which can be one or more consonants, and a rhyme. The rhyme includes a vowel nucleus and any following consonants, called a coda. Syllables without a coda, like "me" and "no", are open, while those with a coda, like "up" and "hat", are closed. Both the onset and coda can contain consonant clusters, like "spl" or "ts".

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    LINGUISTIC SKILLS

    Syllables

    July 10, 2019

    A sound.The most common type of syllable

    in language also has a consonant (C) before a

    vowel (V) and is typically represented as CV.

    Technically, the basic elements of the syllable are

    onset(one or more consonants) and the rhyme.


    The rhyme (sometimes written as a 'rime
    rime')

    consists of a vowel , which is treated as the

    nucleus, plus any following consonants, described

    as the coda
    coda.

    Syllables like me,to or no have an onset and a

    nucleus but no coda. They are known as the open

    syllable
    syllable. When a coda is present, as in the

    syllable up,cup,at or hat, they are called 'closed


    closed'

    syllables. The basic structure of the kind of

    syllable found in English words like green(CCVC),

    eggs(VCC), do(CV) and like(CVC) is shown in the

    following dialgram:

    Consonant cluster:

    Both the onset and the coda can consists of more

    than one consonant also known as a consonant

    cluster. In English, for example, the groups /spl/

    and /ts/ are consonant clusters in the word

    splits .

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