Linguistics & Language · Phonetics & Phonology
A topic within Phonetics & Phonology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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Daniel Kahn
Argues that a range of English phonological rules cannot be stated without the syllable as a unit, and introduces ambisyllabicity to explain segments that behave as though they belong to two syllables at once.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Shelece Easterday
Surveys languages that permit unusually large consonant clusters and shows they share a common phonetic profile, heavy vowel reduction and high morpheme-to-word ratios, arguing that highly complex syllable structure is a coherent typological category produced by predictable historical pathways rather than a random outlier of syllabification.