Chapter8
1. What is the meaning of "syllable"?
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of asyllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).
2. What is a "minimum syllable"?
In a single vowel in isolation
3. What is the meaning of "onset" and "coda"?
That is instead of silence, they have one or more consonants preceding the center of the syllable.
4.Give examples of the following syllables:
a) a minimum syllable{a:}
b) onset+peak:
c)peak+coda ease{i:z}
d) onset+peak+coda
5.What is the defenition of the following terms:
a) phonotactics:the study of possible phoneme combination of a language
b) consonant cluster:when we have two or more consonants together