Re: open/closed syllables
| From: | E-Ching Ng <e-ching.ng@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 9, 2001, 0:00 |
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Hi David,
As I understand it, a closed syllable ends with a consonant and an open
syllable ends on its vowel. So stan 'stone' has one closed syllable, but
stanas 'stones' has an open syllable sta and a closed syllable nas.
Am curious. Unless they're talking about the Old English to Middle English
transition period, I don't really see why they're talking about open and
closed syllables.
E-Ching
At 06:18 PM 3/8/2001 -0500, David Stokes wrote:
>I'm reading about Old English and I keep encountering references to open
>and closed syllables without any explanation of these terms.
>
>Can someone help me ?
>
>Thanks
>David
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