english sound structure part 7. Bài tập luyện ngữ pháp tiếng anh cho mọi người, đây là tài liệu hay và hữu ích có thể giúp các bạn có thể nắm vững được các ngữ pháp tiếng anh cụ thể. | 72 Constituency consonant is a heavy VX rhyme where X represents either a nuclear or a coda position . We have come across the configuration of a heavy rhyme followed by a final consonant before but under different circumstances. Recall the extra-metrical status of final consonants in stress assignment in verbs for example we saw how a heavy W or VC rhyme preceding a final extra-metrical consonant attracts stress. The parallel between the stress and syllabification facts which at first blush may seem rather odd turns out under close inspection to be anything but coincidental. The clusters which on the face of it present the most convincing evidence in favour of an independent coda constituent are the two- and three-consonant sequences in 49d e f . However we will now consider evidence which indicates that of all the clusters shown in 49 only 49a is exhaustively syllabified in a rhyme. The absolute final consonant position illustrated in 49b through 49f can be shown to exhibit certain distributional peculiarities which are at odds with the notion that it forms part of a coda. We will start by considering how this point relates to the three-position sequences in 49c and 49d . If the word-final consonant of a V V C or VCC cluster were syllabified in coda position it would be reasonable to expect it to display the same kind of distributional characteristics as morpheme-internal coda consonants. In fact it does not. If anything it behaves just like a morpheme-internal onset. One rather obvious respect in which the final consonant differs from an internal coda consonant is that the former is not constrained by the phonotactic dependency that the latter displays in relation to a following onset. For example a nasal in an internal coda is dependent on the following onset consonant for its place specification. A word-final nasal on the other hand has its own distinctive place value even though in the case of a coronal nasal this is optionally overridden by the place value .
