Syntetická fonologická teória a slabika v slovenčine a v angličtine
Synthetic phonological theory and the syllable in Slovak and in English

Summary/Abstract: Synthetic phonological theory (SPT) of J. Sabol (1989) views the syllable as a complex sound unit that connects the sound level of a language with the level of the meaning. The syllable boundaries are placed according to several criteria, and the syllabification of words is always complete. The present paper introduces the individual phonetic, phonemic and morphophonemic criteria of syllabication as specified by SPT. The criteria are applied to the delimitation of the syllable boundaries in the Slovak word-medial consonant clusters. Then the sample analysis of the English word-medial consonant clusters follows. Our research probe indicates the possibility to use the theory not only in Slovak, but also in English. By implication, the results indicate language-typological and language-universal nature of the syllable theory on the basis of SPT.

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