A similar debate arises over whether a word like " bird " in a rhotic dialect has an r-colored vowel or a syllabic consonant.
22.
Due to vowel elongation, combined with syllabic consonants, Riessens has to some extent a different rhythm than other varieties, perhaps comparable with North Germanic languages.
23.
Loose vs . tight throat is the only distinction in the two pairs of syllabic consonants, but in the vocoids it is reinforced by a height difference.
24.
Recifense dialect usually palatalize fricatives in any syllabic consonant meeting ( including the end of words ) and not only before / d / and / t /.
25.
All the elements of the syllable except for the nucleus are optional, which means a vowel or a syllabic consonant alone can stand as a fully-fledged syllable.
26.
Albanian also shares two features with Balto-Slavic languages : a lengthening of syllabic consonants before voiced obstruents and a distinct treatment of long syllables ending in a sonorant.
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For restrictions on combinations of voiced and voiceless consonants in clusters, see Czech, Polish does not have syllabic consonants the nucleus of a syllable is always a vowel.
28.
The final r, l, m, and n in English words like butter, bottle, bottom, and button are actually'stand-alone'syllabic consonants.
29.
Historically, similar reductions have taken place before syllabic consonants in certain words, leading to the silent in words like " castle " and " listen ".
30.
The only actual syllabic consonant is a syllabic nasal as an informal variant of " un " " yeah ", similar to syllabic nasals with similar meanings in English.
