Syllables and Stress

Question 1

How are syllables split up in transcriptions?

Answer 1

Dots

Question 2

What are monosyllabic and multisyllabic words?

Answer 2

Mono= 1 syllable 
Multi= more than 1 syllable in the word.

Question 3

What is the nucleus of a syllable?

Answer 3

Vowel

Question 4

What is the sound before the nucleus called?

Answer 4

Onset.

Question 5

What is the rhyme and what makes it up?

Answer 5

Rhyme= vowel and any consonants after.

Made up of the nucleus and coda.

Question 6

What is ambisyllabicity?

Answer 6

Segment at junction of two syllables have equal affiliation to both (ie. when you are unsure exactly where the syllable begins and ends)

Question 7

What is phonotactics?

Answer 7

The sequence of sounds that are allowed within a syllable. Which sounds can occur in which positions (eg. no /h/ in word final position in English)

Question 8

What does allophonic mean?

Answer 8

Small differences in consonant (or vowel) sounds that speakers of a language rarely notice (eg. retroflex t)

Question 9

What can change aspects of speach?

Answer 9

1. Context
2. Languages
3. Personal choice

Question 10

What makes a syllable stressed?

Answer 10

Louder and longer