LING 201 Chapter Notes -Spritsail, Obstruent
27 Oct 2012
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Nucleus: core, usually a vowel, sometimes consonant, required. Coda: consonants after the nucleus rhyme: the constituent of the nucleus + coda. Appendix: consonants outside core syllable (before onset, after rhyme) Maximize the onset: put consonants in an onset rather than a coda. Sonority requirement: sonority rises before nucleus then declines. Obstruent (stops, fricatives, affricates,) > nasal > liquid > glide > vowel. Constituents (o, r, n, c) can be (at most) branching/binary. How do we syllabify 2+ consonants in the onset/coda? ex) sprit" /sprajt/ sonority: s-pt - non binary onset, non-rising before nucleus. Word final or initial/pre-onset consonants not in onset or coda attached to. English: only /s/ can be pre-onset or word initial appendix. Word final appendix can only have voiceless dental/alveolar consonants. 1: build onset - maximize onset consonants, respect rising sonority, build coda - after nucleus, falling sonority (n and c attach at rhyme, appendices - leftover consonants attach to.
