The document discusses consonants, defining them as speech sounds created by stopping airflow. It details the internal segmental structures of syllables, including onset, nucleus, and coda, and explains consonant clusters as groups of consonants surrounding vowels. The document also outlines rules for consonant clusters in English, noting specific occurrences and exceptions.

1. There are no words
start with /slp-/ or
/srp-/.
Why?!?!?!

2. Moza AE

3. Agenda
 What is Consonant ?
 There are some basic internal segmental structure
 What is consonant cluster?
 When does it occur?
 Conclusion
 References

4. Consonant: is a speech sound produced by
completely or partly stopping the air being
breathed out through the mouth.
(Hornby: Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary).
English consonants are described by the ----
Based on
A. Voicing B. Place of articulation C. Manner of
Articulation

5. There are some basic internal segmental
structure
1-The nucleus is the vowel in the middle of
a syllable.
2-The onset is the optional sound or
sounds occurring before the nucleus.
3-The coda is the optional sound or sounds
that sounds occurring after the nucleus.
Example :
1- cat
2-Twelfths

6. A consonant cluster (CC)
is a group of two or more consonant sounds that come
before (onset), after (coda), or between (medial) vowels.
Also known simply as cluster.
Note that clusters are determined based on the sounds, not
the letters of the words.

7. When does it occur?
 In English the number of consonants in sequence
could be 3 maximum in initial position and up to 4
in the final one and can of course occur in the
median position.
 Initial three-consonant clusters always have the
consonant voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ in the
first position of the onset, one of the voiceless
stops /p, t, k/ in the second, and one of the
following liquids in third position /w, y, r, l/.

8. Example:

9. Concerning the second and third consonants of the
cluster, the louder consonant will always be put
closer to the nucleus, or vowel of the syllable.
Thus we have “splash” /splæʃ/ and “spread”
/spred/.
However, there are four exceptions to this rule. The
sequence of consonants /s + m + j/ occurs only
once as an initial consonant in English in the word
“smew”;/smju:/ (a diving duck). On the other hand,
/spw/, /stw/, and /stl/, never occur.

10. Conclusion
1- There are three basic internal segmental structure O,N and C.
2-A consonant cluster is a group of two or more consonant sounds
that come before , after , or between (medial) vowels.

11. OReferences
O https://www.slideshare.net/sukkarif/consonant-
clusters?qid=937487da-7b0b-4cf5-beca-
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O CÔTÉ . MARIE-HÉLÈNE 2000 .CONSONANT CLUSTER
PHONOTACTICS Université de Montréal.
O https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-consonant-cluster-cc-1689791