english sound structure part 15. 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. | 184 Licensing Resyllabification The linear treatment of syncope as vowel deletion converts into non-linear format in one of two ways either a delete the nuclear position together with its melodic content or b delete the vocalic melody while leaving the nuclear position intact. The consequences of these two approaches are quite different. The first requires the mechanism of resyllabification to repair the damage inflicted on constituent structure by the obliteration of a nuclear position. When applied to sep a rate the latter operation casts the preceding onset consonant adrift as illustrated in 48 . 48 a O N O N Illi X X X X Illi s e p a O N O N Illi X X X X I I I rat b Syncope ONO I I I XXX I I I sep O N O N Illi X X X X I I I rat Two resyllabification strategies are potentially available for reintegrating the stray onset consonant of 48b into constituent structure it can join either the preceding rhyme 49a or the following onset 49b . 49 a ONO NON I I l III X X X X X X X I I I I I I s e p r a t In this particular instance appeal might be made to sonority sequencing and onset maximization together these would favour 49a over 49b on the grounds that pr exists independently of the syncope contexts as a well-formed onset in However this account cannot be extended to all cases of this type of syncope since as we will now see many of the consonant strings resulting from the process do not coincide with the set of grammatical onsets. The type of English syncope under discussion is sensitive to the identity of the consonant immediately following the syncope site. In the overwhelming majority of cases the process affects forms in which this segment is a resonant. Thus we find syncope in words such as op e ra especi a lly pers o nal but not in the likes of bracketing gossiping menacing . For most forms which display unsyncopated and fully syncopated variants there exists an intermediate variant containing a syllabic reflex of the consonant in question for
