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From: stampe@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (David Stampe)
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Subject: Re: syllables of English
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Date: 7 Jul 88 16:07:17 GMT
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In-reply-to: shorne@citron's message of 7 Jul 88 02:03:31 GMT

If it's possible, rather than occurring, English syllables you want, you
might look at diagrams for possible monosyllables, as in Zellig Harris,
Methods in Structural Linguistics, U. Chicago Press, 195?.  Stressed
syllables in polysyllables are a subset of those in monosyllables.
Unstressed syllables are a subset of stressed syllables, unless you take
the consonantal nuclei in rubber, rubble, ribbon, rub'm to be distinct
from the nuclei of brr, bull, bun, bum.  Such diagrams are approximations,
since the number of phonemes and especially the number of possible
combinations into syllables differs somewhat among dialects and
individuals.  They usually admit hundreds of pronounceable but very
peculiar syllables like trart, klilk, kwuw, smamp, oyj, awb.

David (stampe@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu)