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Originally Posted by j4mes_bond25 I wonder if there's anyone around who could enlighten me a little about the use of "Syllabic Consonant".
As far as I know it's usually syllabic N (as in button), syllabic M (as in bottom) & syllabic L (as in bottle) are the ONLY 3 syllabic consonant. Is there any other than I'm yet missing.
Additionally, what I really wonder is WHY does the syllabic N occurs in "button" (pronounced "but.n") but NOT in London (which is pronounced "lun.dan", as opposed to "lun.dn"). The same goes for Hampton & Wanton, for example. If name such as "Gordon" (pronounced "gor.dn") "Jordon" (pronounced "jor.dn") has syllabic "N" then why not names like "London", "Hampton" & "Wanton" ??? |
For GenAm, sometimes the "er" in "father" is considered a syllabic /r/. There are precious few rules in English pronunciation, so wondering why similar words are pronounced in radically different ways might be a futile exercise. Tdol's suggestion makes sense to me though.