{"id":3969,"date":"2011-11-13T17:39:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T16:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3969"},"modified":"2011-11-13T17:39:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T16:39:37","slug":"maximal-onset-principle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3969","title":{"rendered":":Maximal onset principle:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A phonological principle proposed by some writers which determines the placement of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1066\">syllable<\/a> boundaries in cases of doubt. The principle states that, unless doing so would violate universal or language-specific constraints, consonants should be assigned to the syllable <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1340\">onset<\/a> rather than the syllable <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1337\">coda<\/a>. For example, the English word <em>extra <\/em>could be syllabified <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>ek$str\u0259<\/strong><\/span> or <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>eks$tr\u0259<\/strong><\/span> or <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>ekst$r\u0259<\/strong><\/span>. All other syllable divisions would result in illegal consonant clusters in English.  The principle favours the first of the versions shown.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>See for example Selkirk, E.O. (1981) <em>English Compounding and the Theory of Word-structure<\/em>, in: M. Moortgat, H. Van der Hulst &#038; T. Hoestra (eds.) <em>The Scope of Lexical Rules<\/em>, Foris, Dordrecht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A phonological principle proposed by some writers which determines the placement of syllable boundaries in cases of doubt. The principle states that, unless doing so would violate universal or language-specific constraints, consonants should be assigned to the syllable onset rather &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3969\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":201,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3973,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3969\/revisions\/3973"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}