Ўзбекистон давлат жаҳон тиллари университети

English
Russian
/sItə/		Sitter	/с‘итъ/ сито
/letə/		Letter	/л‘этъ/ лето
/rnə/		Runner	/ранъ/ рана

If a checked vowel is separated by one consonant from a syllabic sonant the boundary between the two syllables is also within the consonant.

E.g. /l_Itl, k_ɔtn, _fætn, b_Itn, r_Iðm/

3. 
   When a free vowel is separated from a succeeding stressed vowel by only one consonant sound, the syllable in which such a vowel occurs is always open.
   

E.g. idea /a_I-`d<sub>Iə</sub>/, cartoon /k<sub>ɑ</sub>:-`tu:n/, erect /_I-`rekt/

When a post-stressed free vowel is separated from a succeeding vowel by a single consonant it is hardly possible to determine the point of syllable division – whether it is before, within or after the intervocalic consonant. In all probability it is before the consonant.

E.g. family /`f<sub>æ</sub>m<sub>I</sub>l<sub>I</sub>/, policy /`p_ɔl_Is_I/, economy /_I`k_ɔn_əm_I/, possibility

/ˎp_ɔsI`bIlItI/

But the establishment of the place of syllable division is of no practical importance being of academic interest only.

3. 
   When there is a cluster of consonants between two vowels the place of the syllabic boundary is conditioned by whether this cluster occurs word- initially or not. If it does occur at the beginning of words, the syllabic boundary is before it. If it doesn‘t, the boundary is between the consonants. For instance, the cluster /gr/ is used word-initially in English, therefore it can occur at the beginning of a syllable and the syllabic boundary is before the cluster.
   

E.g. agree /_ə`gri:/, regret /r<sub>I</sub>`gret/.

The clusters /dm/, /dv/ do not occur word-initially and cannot occur at the beginning of a syllable. The syllabic boundary is, therefore, between the consonants constituting the clusters.

E.g. admit /_əd`m<sub>I</sub>t/, admire /<sub>ə</sub>d`ma_Iə/, advice /_əd`va_Is/, admission

/_əd`m_In/.

When two vowels are separated by more than two consonants as for example in /ekstrə/ the boundary may be both before /s/ and /t/ because both /str/ and /tr/ occur at the beginning of words.

3. 
   The so-called triphthongs in English are disyllabic combinations. E.g. /`sa<sub>I-ə</sub>ns/ sciences, /`flau-_ə/ flower, /`vau-_əl/ vowel.
   
4. 
   The structure of the stressed syllable in English is different from the structure of the unstressed syllable. The main difference is in the peak. The peak of the stressed syllable is always vocalic. In the unstressed syllable the peak may be a vowel or a sonant. When the peak of the stressed syllable is checked, the syllable must be ―closed‖ by a consonant. The structure of the stressed syllable (open and closed) may be presented by the following formula.
   

1. 
   (C)v(c) - where v is a historically long monophthong or a diphthong and
   

the brackets show that the consonant may be absent;

2. 
   (C)vc - where v is a historically short monophthong.
   

To sum up, we can say that syllable formation and syllable division can more usefully be described with reference to the structure of an individual language since each particular language has its own syllabic structure.