Topic-177: Explaining Syllabification When it comes to the internal structure of syllable, languages differ from each other as the syllabic patterns are different across languages and language families. There are different modes and structures for syllable structure and languages are labelled as per their syllabic templates. Consonant sequences are called clusters (e.g., CC – two consonants or CCC – three consonants. Most of the phonotactic analyses are based on the syllable structures and syllabic templates. On the basis of these consonant clusters, mainly three types of syllabic patterns are considered among languages simple – moderate – complex (on the basis of consonants clusters at edges onset and coda Note the following examples Simple CV Moderate CVC(G)(N) (G for Glide and N for Nasal – specific Cs) Complex CCVCC – CCCVCC (bipartite CC and tripartite CCC)
