1. Week 8 – Sounds in Contact
Syllable – how long?
Syllaba (-ae, fem., Latin = taken together)
First syllables – cca BC (Sumerian)
A word/a phoneme?

2. Week 8 – Sounds in Contact
Number of syllables in words:
Monosyllabic (e.g. fog);
Disyllabic (e.g. table);
Trysillabic (e.g. monument);
Polysyllabic* words (e.g. entertaining)

3. Week 8 – Sounds in Contact
Syllable segments:
Nucleus (the centre of a syllable; no air obstruction); commonly a vowel (mono/diphthong), e.g. mine);
Onset (segment preceding the nucleus, e.g. mine);
Coda (segment following the nucleus, e.g. mine)

4. Week 8 – Sounds in Contact
Open VS Closed syllables
Syllables ending in a vowel (nucleus) – open
E.g. WHY
Syllables ending in (a) consonant/-s – closed
E.g. LOST

5. Week 8 – Sounds in Contact
Syllabification – the process of syllables counting
Strongly depends on intuition 
Can a consonant bear a syllable?

6. Week 8 – Sounds in Contact
Syllabic consonant
L, e.g. table;
N, e.g. seven;
M, e.g. rhythm;
R*, e.g. history