Syllable Type: Combination of C and V (e.g. for “last” [læst], CCVC is a syllabic type)

• C: Non-syllabic (consonants)
• V: Syllabic (vowels / syllabic consonants)

Open Syllable: Ending in a syllabic segment

Closed Syllable: Ending in a consonant (non-syllabic segment)

Sonority: How much air goes out

0 - Obstruent (stop) 1 - Nasals 2 - Liquid 3 - Glide 4 - Vowel

Syllable Structure

Onset: The segments before the nucleus

Nucleus: The core of the syllable (vowel / syllabic consonant)

• Sonority Req: Sonority rises before the nucleus, falls after the nucleus

Coda: The segments after the nucleus

• Rhyme: Nucleus + Coda
• Binarity Req: Onset and coda can have at most 2 segments each

Non-core Syllables: Can violate the sonority and binary requirement

Syllabification: Transcribe a word into a syllable tree

1. Phonemic transcription
2. Identify the nucleus
3. Identify the onset
4. Identify the coda
5. Organize word-level groups (rhyme, syllable, word)