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| PHONOLOGY |
| Phonology deals with the pattering of sounds of language. |
| One of the most common pholological processes is the process of syllabification. This process shows us how to determin the right syllables in a word. |
| For this purpose we first need the phonetic transcription of a given word. |
| Second, we determine the so-called NUCLEUS (the vowels) - each monophtong is represented by a NUCLEUS; for each diphtong and each triphotong ONE NUCLEUS (so, "ei" in the word 'play' would be makred by one nucleus, not by two) |
| Third, the ONSET (consonants, no vowels!). Take the sequences in front of each NUCLEUS and mark it as ONSET. There are principles like THE MAXIMAL ONSET PRINCIPLES: Onset marking should be in accordance with the language-specific conditions. For example, 'kstr??' in "extreme" cannot be an onset because it is in contradiction with the language condtions. think of another word, which begins with the sound 'kstr'... there is none, so it would be a violation of the language-specific conditions (English in this case) and thus also in violation with the MAXIMAL ONSET PRINCIPLE. Now think of a word beginning with the sequence 'str'... the word "street" ('stri:t') would be a good example. This shows us, that our sequence is violating anything, so it could be "united" under an ONSET. |
| The CODA. CODA represents everything which is left out and could not be part of an ONSET. It is usually a sound either after a NUCLEUS (because ONSETS are always in front of a NUCLEUS) or between a NUCLEUS and an ONSET (because it could not be a part of the ONSET) |
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| Then you have to unite each NUCLEUS with the CODA, standing to the RIGHT into a RHYME (also "rime"). If there is no coda to the right of a given nucleus, then this nucleus is alone a RHYME Having done that, you should now unite each ONSET with the RHYME, standing to the right of the corresponding onset into a syllable. Alone standing onsets form their own syllables. Syllables then form a word. Process completed. Now you can prove and show how syllables are formed in different words. |
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