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Kunsusuki Posted 13 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

phonetic

hello everyone ,well my question is about the syllable , our teacher of phonetics said that"both phoneticians and phonologists processed the speech not in term of individual sounds but in term of a unit called a syllable" then he explained that the syllable is a group of noises between two moment of silence and here i got confused because when i take a syllable in a word i find it between two noises not silence ,so what i wanted to say is does he mean a syllable in the word or something else???
  

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The silence between syllables is extremely short. Think of a one-syllable word; there is silence before and after the word. The same could be said of words that have multiple syllables, each one is a noise made when speaking, and you have to briefly stop that noise to make the next noise.

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  • The silence between syllables is extremely short.
  • Think of a one-syllable word; there is silence before and after the word.
  • The same could be said of words that have multiple syllables, each one is a noise made when speaking, and you have to briefly stop that noise to make the next noise.
  • I think a syllable is better described as each distinct vowel sound.
  • A word like "threw" has two consonant sounds, but only one vowel sound, so it is one syllable.
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The silence between syllables is extremely short. Think of a one-syllable word; there is silence before and after the word. The same could be said of words that have multiple syllables, each one is a noise made when speaking, and you have to briefly stop that noise to make the next noise.

I think a syllable is better described as each distinct vowel sound. A word like "threw" has two cons
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kunsusukiour teacher of phonetics said that"both phoneticians and phonologists processed the speech not in term of individual sounds but in term of a unit called a syllable"
I think that you may have misunderstood your teacher. Phoneticians and phonologists do study individual sounds, and some phoneticians analyse the parts of individual sounds.
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i don't think you have got my point of view , what i meant is eventhough i take a syllable in isolation of the others i found it between two consonant( one before and the other after it , or even at only one position) that mean two noises( like the one in your own example) and that is contrudictory to our teacher' definition .
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i think he was trying to explain the definition of the English syllable from two angles Emotion: stick out tonguehonology and phonetics .But in bo
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