| 11. | The other problematic area is that of syllabic consonants, segments articulated as consonants but occupying the nucleus of a syllable.
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| 12. | Emphasis is audible mostly through its effects on neighboring vowels or syllabic consonants, and through the differing pronunciation of and.
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| 13. | Syllabic consonant refers to English " tsk, tsk " and gives an IPA transcription [ ?? ].
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| 14. | Tone is most frequently manifested on vowels, but in most tonal languages where voiced syllabic consonants occur they will bear tone as well.
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| 15. | A syllabic consonant may be analyzed phonologically either as just the consonant, or as consisting of an underlying schwa followed by the consonant.
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| 16. | In most of the above words the weak form contains schwa, or a syllabic consonant in the case of those ending, or.
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| 17. | The syllable nucleus is usually a vowel, in the form of a monophthong, diphthong, or triphthong, but sometimes is a syllabic consonant.
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| 18. | In some Swedish dialects, syllabic consonants may also be heard, for instance in the word " liten " ( little ) :.
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| 19. | Both onset and coda may be empty, forming a vowel-only syllable, or alternatively, the nucleus can be occupied by a syllabic consonant.
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| 20. | Thus, Czech word can have up to four consonants in the initial group and three consonants in the final group ( not including syllabic consonants ).
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