Re: English syllable structure

From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
> >
> >Prattle.  Tootle.  Little.
> >
> >?
>
> Please don't tell me that natives syllablize those as /pr&-tl/, /tu:-tl/
> /lI-tl/ ?! Is NOTHING they teach you in school correct?
In school they only taught us [okay, me anyway] syllabification as an
orthographical device for splitting up words to hyphenate them.  (Nowadays I
never hyphenate at all, since the rules are impossible for me to remember
anyway.)

I still can't phonologically syllabify English words very well, and
"ambisyllabicity" doesn't help either.


    *Muke!