A syllable is divided into two parts: onset and rhyme, And the argumentations employed to motivate the onset-rhyme split can also be used to justify a further division of the rhyme into a nucleus and coda.
A nucleus may impose restrictions of the nat...
A syllable is divided into two parts: onset and rhyme, And the argumentations employed to motivate the onset-rhyme split can also be used to justify a further division of the rhyme into a nucleus and coda.
A nucleus may impose restrictions of the nature of the coda:
/-a□n/'/-a□m/'/-a□b/ "/-a□g/
Regardless of the restrictions the nucleus impose on the consonants within the coda the consonants themselves impose restrictions on the other.
The major principle that relates the phonotactic restriction is Sonority Principle and Obligatory Contour Principle. The clusters that satisfies both these principles are unmarked clusters. And a cluster that satisfies neither of them is marked, while the cluster satisfying either one of the principles is less marked .
Let's give 0 point when the sonority value of both of the consonants of the coda, while we give 1 point when the sonority is falling, and -1 when the sonority is rising, which is the worst case in the view of sonority princile.
If the consonants contrasts in major class features, we give 1 point and we give 0.5 when they contrast in subsidiary features.
The sum total of sonority and OCP points means the possibility of the occurrence of the clusters.
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