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The presence of a deep resonating sound (which is generally a vowel
sound) is mandatory in every syllable. There are certain exceptions which
we shall discuss later.
The structure of a syllable could be any one of the following:
V – ah!, oh! /aː/, /ǝυ/
CV – boy, tea /bɔi/, /tiː/
VC – oil, up /ɔIl/, /Λp/
CVC – girl, toil /gƷːl/, /tɔIl/
(V stands for vowel and C stands for consonant sounds) Words may be
monosyllabic, disyllabic, tri-syllabic or polysyllabic. Examples of monosyl-
labic words:
/ gƷːl / / muːv / / tiː /
CVC CVC CV
Examples of disyllabic words
/ tiːt∫ɔ / / d ktǝ /
CV-CV CVC-CV
Tri-syllabic words:
/ rımembǝ / / kjυkǝmbǝ /
CV-CVC-CV CCV-CVC-CV
Polysyllabic words
/ IgzæmIneı∫n / / æpliker∫n /
VC-CV-CV-CV-CV VC-CV-CV-CV
There are certain syllables which do not have a vowel sound in them.
In such syllables a consonant sound takes the role of the nucleus of that syl-
lable. Such consonants are called syllabic consonants.
e.g. /n/ and /l/
e.g:

/ b tl/ – CV-CV
/metl/ – CV-CV
/b^tn/ – CV-CV
/m^tn/ – CV-CV
/setl/ – CV-CV
Two or more consonants can occur in succession. They are called con-
sonant clusters. Consonant clusters can occur with the word initially placed
or word finally placed. The maximum numbers of consonants that can be
present in word initial consonant clusters are three.
For example:
/spl-/ splash, spleen

/spr-/ spring, sprain

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