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What are syllables, and what is their internal structure? (Trinity 2006) In the field of phonological studies, syllables are still considered quite elusive units of speech and without satisfactory definition. Traditionally, attempts to explicate the syllable concept have proceeded either from the phonetic direction, in terms of muscular movements associated with the respiratory apparatus, or of peaks and troughs of stress or aperture or 'prominence', or from the phonological direction, as that type of phoneme sequence in terms of which the phonotactics of a given language can be described with the greatest generality. {199-200, Sommerstein}. This paper will therefore explore, given the research into syllables so far, what syllables actually are, as well as the minutiae of their internal structure. Speech sounds, or segments, are not produced in human speech as individual units, but rather produced as part of larger units - that is to say, syllables. Syllables seem to have obligatory...

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