简答题In English, syllabic consonants occur when /l, n/ or /m, ŋ/ (standing as the peak of the syllable instead of the vowel) follows a homorganic (i.e., the same place of articulation) plosive (or occasionally a fricative). A、正确 B、错误简答题Phonological treatments of syllable structure usually call the first part of a syllable the onset, the middle part the nucleus and the end part the cod The combination of nucleus and coda is called the rhyme. A、正确 B、错误简答题Nucleus is the most sonorous sound in the syllable. The majority of syllables is made of a __________ sound, e.g. /æ/ in tap, /i:/ in steep, /ʊ/ in book. Every syllable by definition has a nucleus. A、monophthong B、 diphthong C、 triphthong D、 vowel简答题There are cases where a consonant or a cluster could be either the coda to the first syllable of a word, or the onset to the second, we can say that it fulfils both functions, for instance, the /b/ in rabbit, the /st / in posting, the /n/ and /m/ in cinem This is known as ___________. A、 syllabicity B、 bi-syllabicity C、 syllabification D、 ambisyllabicity简答题Syllables are units of language, smaller than a word but larger than a phoneme, and every language is said to have syllables. A、正确 B、错误简答题In fact, the formation of syllabic consonants has much to do with the __________ principle, a term in auditory phonetics for the overall loudness of a sound relative to others of the same pitch, stress and duration. A、sonority B、 maximum C、minimum D、articulatory简答题English has a complex system of clusters, while Chinese has no consonant clusters, only single consonant appearing at onset position of a syllable (with the exception /n/ and /ŋ/ that occur in __________ position of a syllable). A、coda B、 onset C、nucleus D、 initial简答题The V and CV syllables are referred to as a/an __________ syllable because they end with a vowel. A、closed B、combination C、open D、r-syllable简答题Not all English vowel phonemes can occur in the CV syllable pattern, but all can appear in the CVC pattern. A、正确 B、错误简答题A syllable may have one onset consonant, as /s/ in sit, tow onset consonants as /sp/ in spit, three onset consonants, as /spr/ in spring, or no onset consonants as in it /ɪt/. A、正确 B、错误