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Silvia Black Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Please,check my syllable division

I mean Phonetic (spoken) syllables division, so they are divided in transcription
advice [?d'/ va?s]
eagle ['i?/ gl]
agree [?'/ gri?]
degree [d?'/ gri?],
garden ['g??/ dn]
?luster ['kl?s / t?]

I'm more or less confident about above-mentioned,but what about these:
rhythm - some say, it's 1 syllable, others say that nasal [m] can form syllable and that the word should be divided like this ['r? / ðm] or this ['r?ð / m]. I rather lean to the last variant
sudden ['s? / dn] or ['s?d / n] -the same situation.
teacher ['ti? / t??] or ['ti?t? / ?] ???
journalist ['d??? / n(?) / l?st] or ['d??? / n(?)l / ?st]
  

Top answer

Please excuse my non-IPA. I'm sure it will be clear anyway. n tea-ch?

— GPY

  • Please excuse my non-IPA.
  • I'm sure it will be clear anyway.
  • n tea-ch?
  • -list However, in normal speech, the question of whether internal consonants attach to the preceding syllable or the following syllable is usually irrelevant.
  • m" differently at normal speed.
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Please excuse my non-IPA. I'm sure it will be clear anyway. This is how I say them:

rhy-th?m
su-d?n
tea-ch?
jour-n?-list

However, in normal speech, the question of whether internal consonants attach to the preceding syllable or the following syllable is usually irrelevant. For example, it is not possible (not for me anyway) to say "rhy-th?m" and "rhyth-?m" differently
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Silvia Blackagree [?'/ gri?]
[? / 'gri?] The stress mark goes with the syllable that is stressed. Check the others because you make the same mistake throughout.
Silvia Black['r? / ð(?)m] ... ['s?d / n] ... ['ti? / t??] ... journalist ['d??? / n? / l?st]
In my speech, the only
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For rhythm, Wells (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary) gives r? / ð?m and Roach et al (Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary) give 'r?ð / ?m.

As Wells notes, "The question of syllabification in English is controversial: different phoneticians hold different views about it".
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fivejedjondifferent phoneticians hold different views about it
Lagefoged even claims that there is no such thing as a syllable!

CJ
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CalifJimLagefoged even claims that there is no such thing as a syllable!
He certainly says that the syllable is a "unit of speech for which there is no satisfactory definition" (A Course in Phonetics, 2006.295) but he writes about them as if they exist.
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I needed to divide it accordind to these rules adopted in LPD-2000(probably Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (LPD) by J. C. Wells 2000):

1. A syllable boundary is found wherever there is a word boundary, and also coincides with the morphological boundary between elements in a compound:
displace [,dis 'pleis] become [bi '??m] countless ['kaunt
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Silvia Black2. Consonants are syllabified with whichever of the two adjacent vowels is more strongly stressed, e.g. farmer ['fa:m ?], agenda [? '??nd?].If they are both unstressed, it goes with the leftward one: e.g. cinema ['sin ?m?],
Wells would break the syllbles where I have put the#:

garden ['g??
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Thanks for all of your replies! You're doing the great job!!!Emotion: nodding
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