If both consonants have the same sonority rank, they are equal and each is placed in a different syllable, because, as we shown above, the syllable is based on a scale of rising and falling sonority.

In our analysis, the distinction between the syllabic and trapped consonants will be adopted which, as will be proposed, derives from different lexical structures of either type. Apart from the ...

The exceptions arrive quickly. If the final syllable of a word is stressed, its consonant is doubled regardless of the vowel sound, as in “occur/occurrence” (the latter being frequently misspelled).

Consonant-heavy syllables don't carry very well in places like windy mountain ranges or dense rainforests, researchers say. "If you have a lot of tree cover, for example, [sound] will reflect off ...

The three consonant-vowel frames found in babies’ babbling also frequently appear in lists of words from 27 ancestral languages from different parts of the world, the Texas researchers say.