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Syllable nucleus - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Alveolar, Antistrophe, Antonym, Articulation, Aspiration, Assimilation, Atom, Bilabial, Bit, Book, Burden, Canto, Cerebral, Check, Chorus, Consonant, Couplet, Crumb, Dental, Diphthong, Dissimilation, Distich |
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In phonetics and phonology, the nucleus is the central part of the syllable, mostly commonly a vowel. In addition to nuclei, syllables may begin with an onset and end with a coda, but the only part of a syllable that is mandatory is the nucleus.
Here are some examples of nuclei:
- cat - /a/
- bed - /e/
- tore - /o/
- ode - /o/
- eat - /i/ (the "ea" part)
- tea - /i/ (the "ea" part)
- see - /i/ (the "ee" part)
- oh - /o/
- fiddle - /i/ and /l/
- bitten - /i/ and /n/ (The "n" is only for speakers who "swallow" the /t/ sound)
Most often, sounds similar to vowels such as liquids (such as /r/ and /l/) and nasals (such as /m/ and /n/) are used if there is no vowel, but some languages allow other sounds such as stops to become nuclei.
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