T. A. Brovchenko, T. M. Korolova
SYLLABICS: THEORY AND PRACTICE
The survey of some theories of syllable production and division are presented in the article. A universal defenition of a syllable at acoustic level is given. Contrastive analysis of English and Ukrainian syllables makes it possible to say that the nature of the main principles of syllable formation and division are the same in the two languages. There exists certain difference in the rules of correlation of two components of a syllable total energy — intensity and duration, which depends upon the phonematic structure of the English and Ukrainian languages. There are some specific features in the structure of syllables, in the rules
of syllable division in English and Ukrainian.
Key words: syllable production and division, acoustic level, contrastive analysis, phonematic structure.
