Syllables and Phonotactics

Towards Syllabification
Question:
How is this information represented in our brains?
Hypothesis 1:
Perhaps we just memorize it on a word-by-word basis?
◮ For every word of a language, there’s a lot you have to
memorize (sound, meaning, part-of-speech, etc.)
◮ Maybe the way that the word is broken down into syllables
is just one of those things?...
Vocabulary:
Breaking down a word into syllables is called
syllabification.
Syllables and
Phonotactics
Supplementary
Readings
Introduction and
IPA Practice
The Basics of
Syllables
Syllables and
Phonotactics
Syllabification Rule
Syllabic
Consonants
Onsets Over
Codas