Prácticas discursivas de la comunicación oral I

7th, September, 2022

The Syllable Structure

What is a syllable, in phonetic terms? A syllable is a peak of sonority that is

surrounded by less sonorous sounds. What that means is that a syllable is
made up of a vowel, or some other very sonorous sound, with some sounds
before it and after it that are less sonorous, usually glides and consonants. The
most sonorous sound, the peak of sonority, is called the nucleus of a syllable.
All syllables must have a nucleus. The nucleus may optionally be preceded by
an onset, consisting of one or more consonants and it may optionally be
followed by a coda, again consisting of one or more consonants.