Cartoon Theories of Linguistics
Part 12—Syllables
Phineas Q. Phlogiston, Ph.D.
Unintentional University of Lghtnbrgstn
To review the earlier Cartoon Theories of Linguistics, please seek out previous installments in the series in this journal.
Now let us consider the most important aspects of syllables and their structure:
Next time: Langue vs. Parole.
References
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- Davis, Philip W. & Ross Saunders. (1979). “Bella Coola phonology”. Lingua 49: 169-187.
- Fujimura, O. (1975). “Syllable as a unit of speech recognition”. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 23.1.
- Huffman, M. K. (1997). “Phonetic variation in intervocalic onset /l/’s in English”. Journal of Phonetics 25.2.
- Ladefoged, Peter. (2001). A course in phonetics, 4th edition.
- Nater, Hank F. (1984). The Bella Coola language.
- Shaw P. (1993). “Templatic Evidence for the Syllable Nucleus”. In AJ Shafer (ed.). Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistic Society 23.