Untitled

150 Bogus clusters, syllabic consonants and vowel syncope. . .ment relation. This situation is not infrequent, as confirmed by the Englishexamples. In the course of the discussion in this chapter it was pointed outthat in English the application of Proper Government is severely restricted.The only nuclei which can be properly governed are those which arelexically empty or hold the left branch of the syllabic consonant. This fact,along with the idea of the active initial CV site, is responsible for the phonotacticstructure of English.Finally, let us note that the solutions presented in this chapter can beapplied in the future to analyse and explain a great number of processesaffecting sonorants not only in English but in various unrelated languages.Thus, apart from the phenomena described in this and the previouschapters and the processes analysed in Scheer (2003), (2004), there aremany processes falling under the scope of sonorant lenition, for example,the velarisation and disappearance of the English lateral /l/ in the preconsonantaland word-final position, the loss of /r/ in certain non-rhoticaccents of English, the vocalisation of /r/ in German, English partial geminatesand their absence from the word-initial position, and the existenceof pre-nasalised stops in various Bantu languages.It is hoped that the analysis presented in this chapter proves helpfulin the future studies concerning the phenomena mentioned above.