Re: USAGE: syllables

Alexandre Lang wrote:
> Maybe breaks between words, for example?
Those are often marked by simple spaces.  And there is the use of # to
mark word-boundaries where necessary.

> So it's just to facilitate manipulation of some languages?
> It's not a general rule then and doesn't apply to all languages?
No, no, it is a general rule.  Rhyme = nucleus + coda.  That was just
part of the reason for having the concept of rhyme.

> And it's true that it would be possible to have a language that would
> nasalize a vowel when they preceded by a nasal consonant, in which case
> the onset and nucleus would form the rhyme?
Well, except that a language that nasalized a vowel when following a
nasal consonant would also do it when preceding a nasal consonant, so
you'd simply describe the rule as "nasalize vowels when a nasal
consonant exists in the same syllable".  As I understand it, the
combination onset + nucleus simply doesn't pattern distinctly from the
whole unit "syllable", so that there's no need to create a special term.

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