In English, vowels (five in all) are particularly loud. A vowel phoneme (not a letter) can form a syllable, and a vowel phoneme combined with one or more consonant phonemes can also form a syllable.
Generally speaking, vowel phonemes can form syllables, while consonant phonemes are not loud enough to form syllables. There are four consonants [m], [n], [ng] and [l] in English consonant phonemes, all of which are ringing tones, and they can also form syllables when combined with consonant phonemes. The syllables they form often appear at the end of words, usually unstressed syllables.
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Syllables are the most natural structural units in pronunciation. Specifically, syllables are the smallest phonetic structural units composed of phonemes. Its composition is divided into three parts, so there are obvious perceptible boundaries between syllables. In Chinese, the pronunciation of a Chinese character is generally a syllable. There are 400 basic atonal syllables commonly used in Putonghua, and there are more than 1300 tone syllables (excluding light tone).
Syllables are different from music bars. Many people are confused and should be distinguished.
Syllables can be divided into stressed syllables and unstressed syllables according to stress.
Stressed syllable: refers to the syllables with particularly loud pronunciation in disyllabic or polysyllabic words, which are marked with the stress symbol "`" in the corresponding position, and other syllables are unstressed syllables, such as begin [bi'gin]. Monosyllabic words are stressed, but not stressed.