Syllable

M.A. Sokolova points out that speech can be broken into minimal pronounceable units into which sounds show a tendency to group themselves. These smallest phonetic groups are called _____.

• Vowel sounds

• Syllables

• Consonant sounds

• Assimilation

The most prominent sound being the peak of the syllable is called

• Syllabic

• Streessed

• Unstressed

• Syllabographs

Syllables in writing are called…

• variation

• syllabographs

• morphemic

• syllable division

they can be classified according to their accentual weight. From this point of view, syllables may be …

• Syllabic sonorants

• syllable formation and syllable division

• stressed and unstressed.

• peak of the syllable

There are as many syllables in a word as there are expiration pulses

• The expiratory theory

• The sonority theory

• The muscular tension

• The loudness theory

There are as many syllables in a word as there are peaks of prominence or sonority.

• The sonority theory

• The expiratory theory

• The loudness theory

• the theory of muscular tension

There are as many syllables as there are “arcs of

loudness” and the point of syllable division corresponds to the moment when the arc of loudness begins or ends.

• The expiratory theory

• the theory of muscular tension

• The loudness theory

• The sonority theory

How many functions have the syllable?

• 3

• 4

• 1

• 2

Syllables constitute words, phrases and sentences.

• Constitutive function.

• Distinctive function.

• Identificatory (recognitive) function.

• Boundary

This function is conditioned by the pronunciation of the speaker.

• Boundary function

• Identificatory (recognitive) function.

• Distinctive function.

• Constitutive function.