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Syllabic Consonants in Dictionaries
John Samuel Kenyon
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Abstract
IN THE FOLLOWING OBSERVATIONS the descriptions are based on my own speech habits, and the reader must judge how far they represent practice sufficiently general to be regarded as valid. I define a syllabic consonant as one that forms a syllable without any vowel whatever, as described and illustrated in American Pronunciation1 (AP) and in PDAE, ??z4, I 4.? In my speech only unstressed [1, m, n, j0] are syllabic. Examples are: cattle [kaetf], cradle [kredj],