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LECTURE 9 THE SYLLABIC STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH 1. The Definition of a Syllable

Part III (10minutes)	3.1. T draws a conclusion of the lesson, explains the importance of the lecture 3.2. announces the marks, analyzes the degree of achieved results 3.3. T. gives tasks for self-study and explains the assessment criteria
Ss listen attentively, ask their questions, write the tasks, self- assessment

LECTURE 9 THE SYLLABIC STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH 1. The Definition of a Syllable

In the speech continuum sounds are not pronounced separately ―by themselves‖. The final and the initial phases of the articulation of two neighbouring sounds interpenetrate. So it is practically impossible to draw articulatory and, consequently, acoustic boundaries between them. Sounds are the smallest phonetic units resulting from the linguistic analysis as representatives of phonemes, though they are not articulatory ones.

The minimal pronunciation (articulatory) unit is the syllable which may consist of sound or a group of sounds. The notion of the syllable is one of the fundamental notions of phonetics.

The problem of the syllable in modern phonetics is the problem of syllable formation, syllable division and the phonological status of the syllable. Phoneticians are not always in agreement in their definition of the syllable. This is due to the fact that the syllable may be defined in different ways – functionally, physiologically, acoustically.

According to the oldest conception, expressed by the ancient Greek scholars, the syllable consists of a vowel, surrounded by consonants. The function of the vowel in the syllable is to serve as its nucleus, or peak. The function of the consonants is to be the margins of the syllable. Hence the name consonant, which means ―sounding with something‖ (con + sonorant), incapable of sounding alone. This definition of the syllables is inapplicable to all languages. There are languages where a syllable may consist of consonants only. For instance, in Czeck – ―krk‖ (neck), in English – the second syllable of words like ―garden‖ /g_ɑ:-dn/, ―needn`t‖ /`ni:-dnt/, ―fasten‖ /f_ɑ:-sn/, lighten‖ /la_I-tn/.

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