Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brown, Adam
• Reed, Marnie
• Levis, John M

Titel

Syllable Structure

Ist Teil von

• The Handbook of English Pronunciation, 2015, p.85-105

Ort / Verlag

Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter starts with a discussion of why the syllable is an important unit. The structure of the syllable is then examined, and English syllable structure is shown to be more complex than that of most other languages. After this preliminary basic explanation, various problems with it are investigated. The notion of whether syllables are regular is distinguished from whether they are occurring as words or in words of English. The chapter examines the way in which loanwords that are borrowed from one language to another are usually changed, if necessary, in order to conform to the syllable structure rules of the borrowing language. Finally, the relevance of syllable structure to language teaching is explained. The chapter states that the onset and coda positions are occupied by consonant sounds and the peak position by vowel sounds.