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Wytłumaczenie Syllables
Wytłumaczenie Syllables
EVERY syllable must have a nucleus, but NOT EVERY syllable has an onset or coda.
Syllable
onset nucleus coda
Consonant Vowel Consonant
- Most syllables have an onset, but some syllables don’t have an onset. This is called
empty or zero onset.
Syllable
nucleus coda
V C
Empty (or Zero onset) examples:
- Eat, All, Up, Egg
These can form words on their own (but they don’t have to), they can just be syllables, but
they ALL start with a Vowel sound.
- There are some syllables that consist only of a nucleus. They don’t have an onset and a
coda.
Syllable
nucleus
V
Examples of syllables that consist only of a nucleus:
eye /aɪ/ air /eə/
Nucleus with syllabic consonants
- The nucleus can sometimes be a syllabic consonant., e.g. ‘button’ /bʌt.ən/ - this word has
two syllables - bʌt and ən. The second syllable is a syllabic consonant. The main syllable is
the second syllable. The elevated schwa indicates the consonant is syllabic(!!!), forms the
core of the syllable.
- The second example of a syllabic consonant – ‘rhythm’ /rɪð.əm/
- One more example of a syllabic consonant – ‘bottle’ /bɒt.əl/ = əl is a syllabic consonant
- The most common syllabic consonants are: /l/, /r/, /m/, /n/, /Ŋ/ (engma)
- If a syllable has no coda, we call it an open syllable or a free syllable, e.g. ‘try’ /traɪ/
‘free’ /fri:/
**An open syllable is a syllable that ends with a vowel sound. Typically, an open syllable
will be pronounced with a long vowel sound.
Syllable
onset nucleus
C V
- In English, all onset consonants are allowed as syllable codas, apart from /h/
EXAMPLES OF SYLLABLES
- only has a nucleus
Syllable
onset nucleus coda
C V C
‘I’
/aɪ/
- onset + nucleus
‘My’
/m/ + /aɪ/
- nucleus + coda
‘ice’
/aɪ/ + /s/
- onset + nucleus + coda ‘mice’
/m/ + /aɪ/ + /s/