Beckman (eds.) Papers in Laboratory Phonology I: Between the grammar and the physics of speech. The role of the sonority cycle in core syllabification. ![]() In Aronoff & Oehrle (eds.) Language Sound Structure: Studies in Phonology. On the major class features and syllable theory. Modern Hebrew is an example of such language. The Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) is a fundamental governing principle of syllable structure however, its details remain contested. Some languages allow a sonority "plateau" that is, two adjacent tautosyllabic consonants with the same sonority level. Some languages possess syllables that violate the SSP ( Russian and English, for example) while other languages strictly adhere to it, even requiring larger intervals on the sonority scale: In Italian for example, a syllable-initial stop must be followed by either a liquid, a glide or a vowel, but not by a fricative (except: borrowed words like: pseudonimo, psicologia). ![]() The sonority values of segments are determined by a sonority hierarchy.Ī good example for the SSP in English is the one-syllable word "trust": The first consonant in the syllable onset is t, which is a stop, the lowest on the sonority scale next is r, a liquid which is more sonorous, then we have the vowel u / ʌ / - the sonority peak next, in the syllable coda, is s, a fricative, and last is another stop, t. The SSP states that the center of a syllable, namely the syllable nucleus, often a vowel, constitutes a sonority peak that is preceded and/or followed by a sequence of segments- consonants-with progressively decreasing sonority values (i.e., the sonority has to fall toward both edges of the syllable). The Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) is a phonotactic principle that aims to outline the structure of a syllable in terms of sonority.
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