Keywords
native speakers, English, Syllabification
Abstract
4990 bi-syllabic English words were syllabified by about 22 native speakers who choose between different slash divisions (e.g. photon: FOW/TAHN, FOWT/AHN). Results of the regression analyses of the items with one medial consonant are discussed. Consistent with previous studies, consonants were drawn to stressed syllables, and more sonorant consonants were more often placed in the coda. A model in which syllables are made to be as word-like as possible is supported; syllables were often created that begin and end in the same phonemes that are legal word-initially and finally, and syllabifications tended to follow morpho-logical boundaries. Orthographic conventions, such as not placing ck or ll syllable-initially were also followed
Original Publication Citation
2013.“Syllabification of American English: Evidence from a Large-scale Experiment, part 1.” (with David Eddington and Rebecca Treiman). Journal of Quantitative Linguistics.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Elzinga, Dirk; Eddington, David; and Treiman, Rebecca, "Syllabification of American English: Evidence from a Large-scale Experiment. Part I" (2013). Faculty Publications. 6563.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/6563
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Routledge
Language
English
College
Humanities
Department
Linguistics
Copyright Status
© 2012 Taylor & Francis
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