Syllabicity

But even if metathesis had operated on it, its final resonant creates problems for word syllabicity when consonant-initial affixes are applied. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Syncope would then fail to affect the final vowel in order to avoid syllabicity issues, thus a bare inanimate wordform *kérnə in the nominative and accusative cases. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Over the years, I've slowly come to the conclusion that Syncope didn't obliterate all the schwas in early Late IE eLIE and that a few resisted the rule due to reasons regarding proper syllabicity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Therefore it doesn't qualify as a valid test of my rule since *u carries syllabicity even though it's technically a consonant *w on a certain abstract level. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At any rate, as you can see, there are many ways in which a language may try to normalize words that violate its syllabicity rules. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This 'something' is phonotactic restructuring which would reestablish sanity in the language's syllabicity despite the murderous deletion of so many unstressed vowels, and this likely occurred through various means depending on the nature of the syllabic violation in question. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On the other hand, syllabicity trumps moraic weight in some non-standard dialects. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Modern spoken standard Japanese has, AFAIK, very few phonological processes that pay attention to syllabicity, but several that have to do with moras, particularly accent placement and constraints on minimal words. ❋ Unknown (2005)